The section sign, §, is a typographical character for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. It is also known as the section symbol, section mark, double-s, or silcrow. Use The section sign is often used when referring to a specific section of a legal code. For example, in Bluebook style, "Title 16 of the United States Code Section 580p" becomes "16 U.S.C. §580(p)". The section sign is frequently used along with the pilcrow (¶), which is sometimes also referred to in English as the "paragraph sign", to reference a specific paragraph within a section of a document. While is usually read in spoken English as the word section, many other languages use the word "paragraph" exclusively to refer to a section of a document (especially of legal text), and use other words to describe a paragraph in the English sense. Consequently, in those cases "§" may be read as "paragraph", and may occasionally be described as a "paragraph sign", but this is a description of its usage, not a formal name. When duplicated, as , it is read as the plural "sections". For example, "§§13–21" would be read as "sections 13 through 21", much as (pages) is the plural of , meaning page. It may also be used with footnotes when asterisk , dagger , and double dagger have already been used on a given page. It is common practice to follow the section sign with a non-breaking space so that the symbol is kept with the section number being cited. The section sign is itself sometimes a symbol of the justice system, in much the same way as the Rod of Asclepius is used to represent medicine. The Austrian Ministry of Justice used the symbol in its logo for a time. Keyboard entry The sign has the Unicode code point and many platforms and languages have methods to reproduce it. Android: ChromeOS (with International/Extended keyboard setting) Emacs: HTML: &sect;, &#167;, &#xA7; iOS: (long press) Linux: or MacOS: TeX: \S URL Encoding: %A7 (Latin1) or %C2%A7 (UTF8) Vim: (a Vim digraph) Windows: + or + (code page dependent) US international setting in Windows: (with this setting, the right-hand Alt key acts as an AltGr key) Some keyboards include dedicated ways to access §: Brazil: Denmark: France: Germany: Italy: Norway: Portugal: Romania: (Legacy); (Standard/Programmers) Sweden: (key left of 1)