COLON

Property Value
Codepoint U+003A
Literal Character :
Name COLON
Sketch
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Control Character no
Block Basic Latin
Subblock C0 controls
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