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U+FE55 Small Colon

U+FE55 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+FE50 to U+FE6F Small Form Variants in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is a Small composition of the glyph Colon. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Common Separator and is not mirrored. In text U+FE55 behaves as Nonstarter regarding line breaks. It has type Sentence Continue for sentence and MidLetter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

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, chapter and verse in Bible citations, and, in the US, for salutations in business letters and other formal letter writing.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	65109
UTF-8	EF B9 95
UTF-16	FE 55
UTF-32	00 00 FE 55
URL-Quoted	%EF%B9%95
HTML hex reference	﹕
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ï¹•
Adobe Glyph List	colonsmall

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	SMALL COLON
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Small Form Variants
General Category	Other Punctuation
Script	Common
Bidirectional Category	Common Separator
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	Small
Decomposition Mapping	Colon
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Small Colon
Lowercase Mapping	Small Colon
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Small Colon
Uppercase Mapping	Small Colon
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Small Colon
Titlecase Mapping	Small Colon
Case Folding	Small Colon
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✘
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✔
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✔
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Small Colon
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✘
ID Start	✘
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Colon
NFKC Quick Check	No
NFKD Quick Check	No
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Sentence Continue
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✔
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	MidLetter
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✘
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Small Colon
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Wide
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Nonstarter
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Small Colon
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	U