U+204B "⁋" Reversed Pilcrow Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⁋
U+204B "⁋" Reversed Pilcrow Sign is a typographic symbol that serves as the mirror image of the standard pilcrow (¶), traditionally used in editing and proofreading to indicate the beginning of a new paragraph. While the regular pilcrow marks where a paragraph starts, the reversed version is occasionally employed to denote the end of a paragraph or to highlight a section break in specialized manuscript markup. It has also seen niche use in digital typography and certain technical documents as a formatting marker, though it is far less common than its conventional counterpart.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+204B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Reversed Pilcrow Sign |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⁋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⁋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x81 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x204B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000204B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u204b |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |