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