U+003B Semicolon
U+003B 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 acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. It will not end a sentence. U+003B prohibits a line break after it, and before it, too, if preceded by a number. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “semicolon” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: semi-colon.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The semicolon ; (or semi-colon) is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation. In the English language, a semicolon is most commonly used to link (in a single sentence) two independent clauses that are closely related in thought, such as when restating the preceding idea with a different expression. When a semicolon joins two or more ideas in one sentence, those ideas are then given equal rank. Semicolons can also be used in place of commas to separate items in a list, particularly when the elements of the list themselves have embedded commas.
The semicolon is one of the least understood of the standard marks, and is not frequently used by many English speakers.
In the QWERTY keyboard layout, the semicolon resides in the unshifted homerow beneath the little finger of the right hand and has become widely used in programming languages as a statement separator or terminator.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 59 |
| UTF-8 | 3B |
| UTF-16 | 00 3B |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 3B |
| URL-Quoted | %3B |
| HTML hex reference | ; |
| HTML named entity | ; |
| Encoding: ASCII (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP852 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP855 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP860 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP861 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP866 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP874 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1125 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_2 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_3 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_4 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_5 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_6 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_10 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_11 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_14 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: ISO8859_16 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: KOI8_R (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: KOI8_U (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: PTCP154 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 3B |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1025 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1123 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP833 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP838 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 5E |
| AGL: Latin-1 | semicolon |
| AGL: Latin-2 | semicolon |
| AGL: Latin-3 | semicolon |
| AGL: Latin-4 | semicolon |
| AGL: Latin-5 | semicolon |
| Adobe Glyph List | semicolon |
| digraph | ; |
Related Characters
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| SEMICOLON | |
| — | |
| Basic Latin | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Semicolon | |
| ✘ | |
| Semicolon | |
| Semicolon | |
| ✘ | |
| Semicolon | |
| Semicolon | |
| Semicolon | |
| Semicolon | |
| Semicolon | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Semicolon | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Semicolon | |
| Yes | |
| Semicolon | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Sentence Continue | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| MidNum | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Semicolon | |
| None | |
| narrow | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Infix Numeric Separator | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Semicolon | |
| R |