Section sign

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. In other languages it may be called the "paragraph symbol" (for example, German: Paragrafzeichen). The section sign typically appears akin to a letter S stacked on top of another S.