Use in Latin Ībove notation soon changed to the letter ⟨K⟩, an abbreviation for the Latin word kaput, which translates as "head", i.e. As the paragraphos became more popular, the horizontal line eventually changed into the Greek letter Gamma (⟨Γ⟩, ⟨γ⟩) and later into litterae notabiliores, which were enlarged letters at the beginning of a paragraph. The first way to divide sentences into groups in Ancient Greek was the original παράγραφος ( parágraphos), which was a horizontal line in the margin to the left of the main text. The earliest reference of the modern 'pilcrow' is in 1440 with the Middle English word pylcrafte. This was rendered in Old French as paragraphe and later changed to pelagraphe. The word 'pilcrow' originates from the Ancient Greek: παράγραφος ( parágraphos), literally, "written on the side or margin". It may also be drawn with the bowl stretching further downwards, resembling a reversed D this is more often seen in older printing. The pilcrow is usually drawn similarly to a lowercase q reaching from descender to ascender height the bowl (loop) can be filled or unfilled. In recent times, the symbol has been given a wider variety of roles, as listed below.
In some medieval texts, it indicated a new sentence. The pilcrow was a type of rubrication used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of visually discrete paragraphs was commonplace. The pilcrow may be used at the start of separate paragraphs or to designate a new paragraph in one long piece of copy, as Eric Gill did in his 1931 book An Essay on Typography. It is also called the paragraph mark (or sign or symbol), paraph, or blind P. The pilcrow, ¶, is a handwritten or typographical character used to identify a paragraph. For the notations ⟨ ⟩, / / and used in this article, see IPA Brackets and transcription delimiters. This page uses orthographic and related notations.
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