U2029

U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR is a Unicode code point used to mark the boundary between paragraphs in text encoded with Unicode. The character is named PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR and belongs to the General Punctuation block. Its general category is Zs (Space Separator). In practice, many text-processing systems do not render a visible glyph for it; it is typically intended to be invisible or whitespace-like, serving as a delimiter rather than a printable symbol.

Encoding and representation: U+2029 is encoded in Unicode; its decimal code point is 8233. In UTF-8 it is encoded as three bytes: E2 80 A9. In HTML, it can be represented by the numeric character reference 
 or 
.

Usage and handling: It is intended to indicate a paragraph boundary in contexts where a distinct paragraph separator is desirable beyond line breaks created by newline characters. However, in most modern text, paragraph breaks are expressed with line breaks or block elements in markup languages; as a result, U+2029 is rarely shown as a visible symbol and is often treated as a non-printing delimiter. When processing text, software should preserve or normalize paragraph breaks consistently, and conversions to HTML or rich text should map U+2029 to appropriate paragraph boundaries rather than rendering it literally.

See also: U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR and U+000A LINE FEED.