This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a wide version of the glyph Glyph for U+003AColon. Accordingly, its width in East Asian Text is fullwidth. 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+FF1A prohibits line breaks before its position. There might be some exceptions, though. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
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 (click value to copy)
Nº
65306
UTF-8
EF BC 9A
UTF-16
FF 1A
UTF-32
00 00 FF 1A
URL-Quoted
%EF%BC%9A
HTML hex reference
:
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
:
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
A1 47
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
A1 47
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
81 46
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
A3 BA
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
A1 47
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
A1 A7
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
A1 A7
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
A1 A7
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
A3 BA
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes)
A3 BA
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
A3 BA
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
A3 BA
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes)
7E 7B 23 3A 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 27 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 27 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 27 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 27 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 27 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 27 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 23 3A 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
DA 4A
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
81 46
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
81 46
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
81 46
Adobe Glyph List
colonmonospace
RFC 5137
\u'FF1A'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\uFF1A
C and C++
\uFF1A
C#
\uFF1A
CSS
\00FF1A
Excel
=UNICHAR(65306)
Go
\uFF1A
JavaScript
\uFF1A
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{ff1a}
JSON
\uFF1A
Java
\uFF1A
Lua
\u{FF1A}
Matlab
char(65306)
Perl
"\x{FF1A}"
PHP
\u{ff1a}
PostgreSQL
U&'\FF1A'
PowerShell
`u{FF1A}
Python
\uFF1A
Ruby
\u{ff1a}
Rust
\u{ff1a}
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