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U+00B6, ¶
PILCROW SIGN
µ
[U+00B5]
Latin-1 Supplement ·
[U+00B7]

U+204B, ⁋
REVERSED PILCROW SIGN

[U+204A]
General Punctuation
[U+204C]

U+2761, ❡
CURVED STEM PARAGRAPH SIGN ORNAMENT

[U+2760]
Dingbats
[U+2762]

Translingual

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A pilcrow is placed left of the word ‘The’.

Etymology

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A graphic variation of the Fraktur capital letter cee, , an abbreviation of Latin Capitulo (heading).

Punctuation mark

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(plural ¶¶, English name pilcrow or paragraph mark)

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
  1. Beginning of a section of text.
  2. Beginning of a paragraph; paragraph break; hard return.
    • 2021 October 10, Crystal Paul, “The future of coming out”, in The Seattle Times[1], archived from the original on 4 November 2021, page E1:
      Abby Akari Alishio first came out as queer three years ago. ¶ “I started crying before I even said anything,” said Alishio. ¶ She was 19, and a couple of years out of West Seattle High School, where she’d spent four years feeling like she couldn’t safely explore her queerness or learn about queer community.

Usage notes

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  1. Used inline inside a quotation of a multi-paragraph text where dividing into paragraphs is not allowed. Thus, "Blah ¶ Blah blah blah ¶ Blah blah blah."
  2. Used as an index representing "paragraph" followed by a number. Compare the analogous use of the section sign §.