Editing Pilcrow (section)

== Paragraph signs in non-Latin writing systems ==
In [[Sanskrit]] and other [[Languages of India|Indian languages]], text blocks are commonly written in stanzas. Two vertical bars, [[॥]], called a "double ''daṇḍa''", are the functional equivalent of a pilcrow.<ref name=Ruppel>{{cite book
 | last = A.M.
 | first = Ruppel
 | title = The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit
 | publisher = Cambridge University Press
 | date = 2017
 | location = New York
 | pages = 33
 | language = English
 | isbn = 978-1107088283
}}</ref>

In [[Thai language|Thai]], the character [[๏]] marks the beginning of a stanza and [[ฯะ]] or [[๚ะ]] marks the end of a stanza.<ref name="Thai">{{cite web
| title = Thai
| publisher = Unicode
| year = 2009
| url = http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0E00.pdf
| access-date = 2010-08-04 }}</ref>

In [[Geʽez script#Punctuation|Amharic]], the characters [[፠]] and [[፨]] can mark a section/paragraph.

In China, the [[〇]], which has been used as a [[zero]] character since the 12th century, has been used to mark paragraphs in older Western-made books such as the [[Chinese Union Version]] of the Bible.