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| | | | apostrophe | ( ’ ' ) | | brackets | ( ( ) ), ( [ ] ), ( { } ), ( < >) | | colon | ( : ) | | comma | ( , ) | | dashes | ( ‒, –, —, ― ) | | ellipses | ( …, ... ) | | exclamation mark | ( ! ) | | full stop/period | ( . ) | | guillemets | ( « » ) | | hyphen | ( -, ‐ ) | | question mark | ( ? ) | | quotation marks | ( ‘ ’, “ ” ) | | semicolon | ( ; ) | | slash/stroke | ( / ) | | solidus | ( ⁄ ) | | Word dividers | | spaces | ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) (␠) (␢) (␣) | | interpunct | ( · ) | | General typography | | ampersand | ( & ) | | at sign | ( @ ) | | asterisk | ( * ) | | backslash | ( \ ) | | bullet | ( • ) | | caret | ( ^ ) | | copyright symbol | ( © ) | | currency | generic: | ( ¤ ) | | specific: | ฿, ¢, $, €, ƒ, ₲, ₴, ₭, £, ₦, ¥, ₩, ₪,₮ | | daggers | ( †, ‡ ) | | degree | ( ° ) | | ditto mark | ( 〃 ) | | inverted exclamation mark | ( ¡ ) | | inverted question mark | ( ¿ ) | | number sign/pound/hash | ( # ) | | numero sign | ( № ) | | ordinal indicator | (º, ª) | | percent (etc.) | ( %, ‰, ‱ ) | | pilcrow | ( ¶ ) | | prime | ( ′ ) | | registered trademark | ( ® ) | | section sign | ( § ) | | service mark | ( ℠ ) | | sound recording copyright symbol | ( ℗ ) | | tilde | ( ~ ) | | trademark | ( ™ ) | | underscore/understrike | ( _ ) | | vertical/broken bar, pipe | ( |, ¦ ) | | Uncommon typography | | asterism | ( ⁂ ) | | falsum | ( ⊥ ) | | index/fist | ( ☞ ) | | therefore sign | ( ∴ ) | | because sign | ( ∵ ) | | interrobang | ( ‽ ) | | irony mark/percontation point | ( ؟ ) | | lozenge | ( ◊ ) | | reference mark | ( ※ ) | | tie | ( ⁀ ) | |
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The section sign (§, Unicode U+00A7, HTML entity §), also called the "sectional symbol", is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code.[1] It is frequently used along with the pilcrow (¶), or paragraph sign. When duplicated, as §§, it is read as the plural "sections" (§§ 13–21), much as "pp." (pages) is the plural of "p." (page). For an effect comparable to the contemporary use of bold type, early scribes would double stroke letters, hence the sign was developed from a double stroked letter S.[citation needed]
Like the dagger (†) and double dagger (‡), it is also sometimes used to link to a footnote where the asterisk (*) is already in use on a given page; however, these usages are declining in favor of numbered footnotes, usually linked by a superscripted and/or square bracketed number.
The § symbol is also used on the computer game series The Sims, where it is used as the symbol for the games currency, the Simoleon.
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