U+003A Colon
U+003A was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Narrow East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Common Separator and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 19 other glyphs. In text U+003A behaves as Infix Numeric Separator regarding line breaks. It has type Sentence Continue for sentence and MidLetter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “colon” for use in screen reading software.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 58 |
UTF-8 | 3A |
UTF-16 | 00 3A |
UTF-32 | 00 00 00 3A |
URL-Quoted | %3A |
HTML hex reference | : |
HTML named entity | : |
AGL: Latin-1 | colon |
AGL: Latin-2 | colon |
AGL: Latin-3 | colon |
AGL: Latin-4 | colon |
AGL: Latin-5 | colon |
Adobe Glyph List | colon |
digraph | : |
Related Characters
Double Colon EqualGlyph for U+2A74 Presentation Form for Vertical ColonGlyph for U+FE13 Small ColonGlyph for U+FE55 Fullwidth ColonGlyph for U+FF1A
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
COLON | |
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Basic Latin | |
Other Punctuation | |
Common | |
Common Separator | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Sentence Continue | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
MidLetter | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Narrow | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Infix Numeric Separator | |
None | |
not a number | |
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R |