U+02D0 Modifier Letter Triangular Colon
U+02D0 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Spacing Modifier Letters in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Modifier Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+02D0 forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The colon alphabetic letter ꞉ is used in a number of languages and phonetic transcription systems, for vowel length in Americanist Phonetic Notation, for the vowels ⟨a꞉⟩ [ɛ] and ⟨o꞉⟩ [ɔ] in a number of languages of Delhi, India, and for grammatical tone in several languages of Africa. It resembles but differs from the colon punctuation mark, :. In some fonts, the two dots are placed a bit closer together than those of the punctuation colon so that the two characters are visually distinct. In Unicode it has been assigned the code U+A789 ꞉ MODIFIER LETTER COLON, which behaves like a letter rather than a punctuation mark in electronic texts. In practice, however, an ASCII colon is frequently used for the letter.
In Windows and macOS, the letter colon can be used to emulate the punctuation colon in file names, where the punctuation colon is a reserved character that cannot be used.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 720 |
| UTF-8 | CB 90 |
| UTF-16 | 02 D0 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 02 D0 |
| URL-Quoted | %CB%90 |
| HTML hex reference | ː |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â—ŒË |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A2 B0 |
| LATEX | \Elzlmrk |
| AGL: Latin-5 | uni02D0 |
| Adobe Glyph List | colontriangularmod |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON | |
| — | |
| Spacing Modifier Letters | |
| Modifier Letter | |
| Common | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Modifier Letter Triangular Colon | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Triangular Colon | |
| Modifier Letter Triangular Colon | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Triangular Colon | |
| Modifier Letter Triangular Colon | |
| Modifier Letter Triangular Colon | |
| Modifier Letter Triangular Colon | |
| Modifier Letter Triangular Colon | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Triangular Colon | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Modifier Letter Triangular Colon | |
| Yes | |
| Modifier Letter Triangular Colon | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Modifier Letter Triangular Colon | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Modifier Letter Triangular Colon | |
| R |