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A paragraph mark.

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Usage examples (17)
  • Nyokki: what i did is google the word pilcrow and i saw the symbol and copied it instead of going in character map. hope it makes it easier for you
  • I'll start with remarks on little known formal names for some punctuation marks. pilcrow: ¶
  • Other terms do it for me too: recently I was reminded by India that the symbol for a paragraph is called a pilcrow.
  • MS Word wants to make anything that looks like a quote mark with a space, tab, or pilcrow in front of it into some kind of open-quote mark.
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