what is this symbol: § ?
2007-12-06 06:56:44 · 6 answers · asked by Asher Madan 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
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This is the well-known section mark, sometimes used as a general sign for law and/or bureaucracy.
As a biological sign it can mean a typical specimen of a species.
In typography is used to mean section or paragraph.
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2007-12-06 07:16:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The section sign (§; Unicode U+00A7, HTML entity §) is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code. 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. Another theory supposes it to have developed from the Semitic letter gimel (ג). Its usage was similar to paragraphos.
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 (or, decreasingly, square bracketed) number.
2007-12-06 07:08:29 · answer #2 · answered by Paul 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's a section sign, used to refer to a specific section in a legal
document, the same way you would use pp. for 'pages' or the pilcrow ¶ for 'paragraphs'.
2007-12-06 07:04:52 · answer #3 · answered by Bunny 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
In England, the sign is used by editors to indicate 'new paragraph.'
2007-12-06 07:08:54 · answer #4 · answered by JJ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is the section sign §
2007-12-06 07:03:13 · answer #5 · answered by Rain 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think that this § is another symbol for and.
2007-12-06 07:06:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋