use the escape character to stop {{{ nowiki blocks from being nowiki blocks }}}
* escape lists
= escape a heading
: escape an indented paragraph
escape a horizontal line -––
| escape a | table | r2c1 | rc2c |
{{{ escape nowiki with bold in it }}}
; escape definition lists : like so
you can also escape inline markup like ** bold **, // italics//, \\ newlines, [[ links ]], {{images}}, etc