Home U+FF00 to U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Glyph for U+FF1A
Source: Noto Sans New Tai Lue

U+FF1A Fullwidth Colon

U+FF1A was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+FF00 to U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 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 wide version of the glyph Glyph for U+003A Colon. 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
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

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) FULLWIDTH COLON
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category (gc) Other Punctuation
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Common Separator
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) wide
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+003A Colon
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+FF1A Fullwidth Colon
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+FF1A Fullwidth Colon
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+FF1A Fullwidth Colon
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+FF1A Fullwidth Colon
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+FF1A Fullwidth Colon
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+FF1A Fullwidth Colon
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+FF1A Fullwidth Colon
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✔
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+FF1A Fullwidth Colon
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+003A Colon
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+003A Colon
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Sentence Continue
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✔
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) MidLetter
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+FF1A Fullwidth Colon
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) fullwidth
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Nonstarter
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+FF1A Fullwidth Colon
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) Tr