Colon :
Symbol Meaning
Colon is a punctuation mark that connects parts of a text logically. It usually indicates enumeration or direct speech. As for the Old Slavic language, the equivalent of is a semicolon. In some languages (such as Swedish, Finnish), it is also used to shorten words.
Symbols in other writing systems:
Ethiopic.
Bamum.
Carik Pamungkah. Balinese.
Armenian. Also used as a semicolon.
The symbol “Colon” is included in the “ASCII punctuation” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Colon |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | : |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin |
| Unicode Subblock | ASCII punctuation |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 003A |
| Simple case change | 003A |
| Case_Ignorable | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Terminal_Punctuation | + |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | 3A | 58 | 58 | 00111010 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 3A | 0 58 | 58 | 00000000 00111010 |
| UTF-16LE | 3A 00 | 58 0 | 14848 | 00111010 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 3A | 0 0 0 58 | 58 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00111010 |
| UTF-32LE | 3A 00 00 00 | 58 0 0 0 | 973078528 | 00111010 00000000 00000000 00000000 |
Related Characters
Colon is part of collections: