Section sign

[1][7]: 212, 233 The section sign is itself sometimes a symbol of the justice system,[a][citation needed] in much the same way as the Rod of Asclepius is used to represent medicine.

It was placed at 0xA7 (167) in ISO-8859-1, a position that was inherited by United as code point U+00A7 § SECTION SIGN.

Two possible origins are often posited for the section sign: most probably, that it is a ligature formed by the combination of two S glyphs (from the Latin signum sectiōnis).

[11] Others have theorized that it is an adaptation of the Ancient Greek παράγραφος (paragraphos),[9] a catch-all term for a class of punctuation marks used by scribes with diverse shapes and intended uses.

[13] In Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk, the § symbol is used repeatedly to mean "bureaucracy".