Unicode Character "§" U+00A7 Section Sign

Unicode Version 15.1

§

Summary

The unicode character "§" at code point U+00A7 is Section Sign. It is a character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is part of the Common script. The character is an other punctuation. The UTF-8 encoding of "§" is 0xC2 0xA7 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x00A7.

General Properties

Code Point U+00A7
Version Added 1.1
Name Section Sign
Block Latin-1 Supplement
General Category Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Entity §
HTML Decimal Encoding §
HTML Hex Encoding §
UTF-8 Encoding 0xC2 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x00A7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000000A7
C/C++/Java Escape \u00a7

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other