COLON

Codepoint

U+003A

Literal Character

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Name

COLON

Sketch

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Control Character

no

Block

Basic Latin

Subblock

ASCII punctuation

UTF-8 byte encoding

3a

UTF-16 byte encoding

00 3a (big endian)

HTML Entity

-

LaTeX expression

:

Perl string literal

\x{3A}

Comments

• also used to denote division or scale; for that mathematical use 2236 is preferred
• in Finnish and Swedish, also used as intra-word punctation (abbreviation mark)

See Also

U+02D0: modifier letter triangular colon
U+02F8: modifier letter raised colon
U+0589: armenian full stop
U+05C3: hebrew punctuation sof pasuq
U+1361: ethiopic wordspace
U+1365: ethiopic colon
U+205A: two dot punctuation
U+205D: tricolon
U+2236: ratio
U+A789: modifier letter colon
U+FE30: presentation form for vertical two dot leader

Wikipedia

Colon (punctuation) (en)

Used In

	Name	Composed Of
⩴	DOUBLE COLON EQUAL	<compat> COLON (U+003A) COLON (U+003A) EQUALS SIGN (U+003D)
︓	PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL COLON	<vertical> COLON (U+003A)
﹕	SMALL COLON	<small> COLON (U+003A)
：	FULLWIDTH COLON	<wide> COLON (U+003A)