U+FE13 Presentation Form for Vertical Colon
U+FE13 was added in Unicode version 4.1 in 2005. It belongs to the block Vertical Forms in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a vertical version of the glyph Colon. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. It will not end a sentence. U+FE13 prohibits line breaks before its position. There might be some exceptions, though.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, or a quoted sentence. It is also used between hours and minutes in time, between certain elements in medical journal citations, between chapter and verse in Bible citations, and, in the US, for salutations in business letters and other formal letter writing.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65043 |
| UTF-8 | EF B8 93 |
| UTF-16 | FE 13 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FE 13 |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%B8%93 |
| HTML hex reference | ︓ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ︓ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 31 82 39 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 4.1 (2005) | |
| PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL COLON | |
| — | |
| Vertical Forms | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| vertical | |
| Colon | |
| ✘ | |
| Presentation Form for Vertical Colon | |
| Presentation Form for Vertical Colon | |
| ✘ | |
| Presentation Form for Vertical Colon | |
| Presentation Form for Vertical Colon | |
| Presentation Form for Vertical Colon | |
| Presentation Form for Vertical Colon | |
| Presentation Form for Vertical Colon | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Presentation Form for Vertical Colon | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Colon | |
| No | |
| Colon | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Sentence Continue | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| MidLetter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Presentation Form for Vertical Colon | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Nonstarter | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Presentation Form for Vertical Colon | |
| U |