What ⸿ means
It marks a paragraph or another division in a text. Greek writing on papyrus used a paragraphos, a short line or angle, to show a division. Early Latin manuscripts used this mark, called capitulum, inline as a pointer or separator, saving space.
Forms and placement varied across manuscripts. By the seventeenth century, printed prose used paragraph indents as the standard break, while capitulum-like signs marked sections and chapters.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⸿ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ⸿
- Search it as
- paragraph mark · pilcrow · paragraphus · paragraphos
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⸿CSS
\2E3FHow to type capitulum
In an editor that supports Unicode hex entry, type 2E3F and trigger its conversion command.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⸿
HTML hex
⸿
CSS content
content: "\2E3F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B8%BF
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.