Section sign  The section sign, , is a typographical glyph for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. It is also commonly called section symbol, section mark, double-s, silcrow, or alternatively paragraph mark in parts of Europe. 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 . The section sign is frequently used along with the pilcrow, or paragraph sign, to reference a specific paragraph within a section of a document. While is usually read in spoken English as the word "section", some European countries may read it as "paragraph". When duplicated, as , it is read as the plural "sections" (e.g. ), 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. In Brazil, the sign may be used to represent numbered article paragraphs following the initial paragraph (). The sign has the Unicode code point and many platforms and languages have methods to reproduce it Some keyboards include dedicated ways to access §:  The glyph is encoded in Unicode as and HTML codice_1   The likely origin of the section sign is the digraph formed by the combination of two S glyphs (from the Latin "signum sectiōnis"). In "The Good Soldier Švejk", book 1, chapter 3, the symbol § is used repeatedly to mean "bureaucracy"; it is translated as "red tape" in the 1930 translation by Paul Selver.