U+00A7 "§" Section Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00A7 "§" Section Sign is a typographic symbol primarily used to reference individual sections of a document, such as in legal codes, statutes, or academic texts. It derives from the Latin word "signum sectionis," and in practice it often appears in pairs or with numbers to indicate a specific section or paragraph. In North American legal citation, a double section sign "§§" denotes multiple sections. The character is also employed in digital contexts, such as in metadata or computer file names, as a distinguishing mark due to its distinctive shape.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00A7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Section Sign |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | § |
| HTML Hex Encoding | § |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00a7 |