U+003A Colon
U+003A was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Basic Latin in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it is written as number separator according to the number it separates. When changing direction it is not mirrored. It will not end a sentence. U+003A prohibits a line break after it, and before it, too, if preceded by a number. The glyph can be confused with 19 other glyphs.
The CLDR project calls this character “colon” for use in screen reading software.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 58 |
| UTF-8 | 3A |
| UTF-16 | 00 3A |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 3A |
| URL-Quoted | %3A |
| HTML hex reference | : |
| HTML named entity | : |
| Encoding: ASCII (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP852 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP855 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP860 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP861 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP866 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP874 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1125 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_2 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_3 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_4 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_5 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_6 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_10 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_11 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_14 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: ISO8859_16 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: KOI8_R (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: KOI8_U (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: PTCP154 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 3A |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1025 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1123 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP833 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP838 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 7A |
| 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
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| COLON | |
| — | |
| Basic Latin | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Common Separator | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Colon | |
| ✘ | |
| Colon | |
| Colon | |
| ✘ | |
| Colon | |
| Colon | |
| Colon | |
| Colon | |
| Colon | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Colon | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Colon | |
| Yes | |
| Colon | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Sentence Continue | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| MidLetter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Colon | |
| None | |
| narrow | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Infix Numeric Separator | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Colon | |
| R |