What ¶ means
It marks a paragraph boundary.
In proofreading and editing, the pilcrow flags where a paragraph begins or where a break belongs. It organizes prose; it carries no tone or hidden reaction.
Why is ¶ showing after every paragraph?
Word is showing formatting marks.
That pilcrow-shaped marker is Word's way of revealing paragraph breaks, spaces, and tabs. Switch Show/Hide off and the page returns to normal; nothing is broken.
Technical and editorial; in chat it reads as a proofreading note.
In Word it means a view setting, not damaged text.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
4Paragraph 12, as cited in legal and court documents.
Paragraphs 5 through 7 in a citation.
Section 4, paragraph 2 of a statute or contract.
Word shortcut that shows or hides paragraph marks.
Questions people ask
1Is ¶ an emoji?
No. It is a typographic punctuation mark for paragraph structure and formatting display.
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How to type or find ¶
- Also called
- paragraph mark · paragraph symbol · paraph
- Search it as
- pilcrow · paragraph · proofreading · nonprinting · word
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
¶
HTML hex
¶
CSS content
content: "\00B6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%C2%B6
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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.