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The pilcrow (¶), also called the paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea (Latin: ''a lineā'', "off the line"), or blind P, is a typographical character for individual paragraphs. It is present in Unicode as . The pilcrow can be used as an indent for separate paragraphs or to designate a new paragraph in one long piece of copy, as Eric Gill did in his 1930s book, ''An Essay on Typography''. 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 is usually drawn similar to a lowercase q reaching from descender to ascender height; the loop can be filled or unfilled. It may also be drawn with the bowl stretching further downwards, resembling a backwards D; this is more often seen in older printing. ==Origin and name== According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', the word ''pilcrow'' "apparently" originated in English from an unattested version of the French ''pelagraphe'', a corruption of ''paragraph''; the earliest reference is c. 1440. The '' Oxford Universal Dictionary'' says it may be from "pulled () crow," based on its appearance. The sign itself developed in the late medieval period out of a scribal abbreviation marking a new paragraph or section. It may either have been an abbreviation for ''Item'' (i.e. a stylised representation of the letters ''Jt''), or for ''capitulum'' (⸿, i.e. representing a ''C'' with two vertical strokes.) This ''C'' was the ''paraph'' symbol that replaced in the function of marking off paragraphs the Greek-style ''paragraphos'', and other symbols including the section sign. Moreover, the ''paraph'' also could be marked with a full-height sign similar to ¢ (cents) or with a double slash, originally symbols indicating a note from the scribe to the rubricator. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pilcrow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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