Colon :

U+003A

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.

This text is also available in: Русский;

Unicode Name	Colon
Unicode Number
Entity	&colon;
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Basic Latin
Unicode Subblock	ASCII punctuation
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Alt Code	Alt 58

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