U+00A7
CHARACTER
SECTION SIGN
Category:
Other Punctuation (Po)
Block:
Latin-1 Supplement
Script:
Common
Age:
Unicode 1.1
Plane:
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
Quick Facts
| Unicode Name |
SECTION SIGN
|
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|---|---|---|
| Code Point |
U+00A7
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| Decimal Value |
167
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|
| General Category | Other Punctuation (Po) → | |
| Unicode Block | Latin-1 Supplement → | |
| Script | Common → | |
| Unicode Version | Unicode 1.1 → | |
| Unicode Plane |
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
|
Byte Encodings
| UTF-8 2 bytes |
C2 A7
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|---|---|---|
| UTF-16 Code Unit |
00A7
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|
| UTF-32 4 bytes |
000000A7
|
|
| UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
00 A7
LE: A7 00
|
|
| UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
00 00 00 A7
LE: A7 00 00 00
|
Developer Code Escapes
| HTML Decimal |
§
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|---|---|---|
| HTML Hexadecimal |
§
|
|
| HTML Named Entity |
§
|
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| CSS Escape |
\0000A7
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| JavaScript (ES6) |
\u00A7
|
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| JavaScript (UTF-16) |
\u00A7
|
|
| JSON Escape |
\u00A7
|
|
| Python |
\u00A7
|
|
| PHP |
"\u{A7}"
|
|
| Java |
"\u00A7"
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|
| C / C++ |
"\u00A7"
|
|
| Rust |
'\u{a7}'
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|
| URL Percent-Encoded |
%C2%A7
|
Normalization & Decomposition
| Combining Class |
0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Decomposition | None (Canonical / Precomposed Base) | |
| NFC / NFD Forms | Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD). |
Bidirectional Properties
| Bidi Class |
ON — Other Neutral
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Bidi Mirrored | No |
Font Specimen & Rendering
Visual rendering of U+00A7 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.
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