Section Sign
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0167 on the numeric keypad to insert section sign.
- Alt code
- Alt+0167
- HTML entity
- §
- Unicode
- U+00A7
About this symbol
The section sign points to a numbered section of a document, most often a law or contract: § 12 means section 12, and §§ 12–14 means sections 12 to 14. It is usually explained as two letter s’s, for signum sectionis, the sign of the section, written one over the other.
In German and several other European languages it is called the paragraph sign, and it appears on German keyboards.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SECTION SIGN
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Used in referencing numbered sections or paragraphs
- Related
- ⸹ Top Half Section Sign U+2E39
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Windows Extended Codes: 0128 to 0255 chart for related characters.