Colon
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 58 on the numeric keypad to insert colon.
- Alt code
- Alt+58
- HTML entity
- :
- Unicode
- U+003A
About this symbol
The colon took its name from the Greek kolon, a limb of a sentence. Its two stacked dots now introduce a list, an example or an explanation, and they separate hours from minutes.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- COLON
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Also used to denote division or scale; for that mathematical use 2236 is preferred
- In Finnish and Swedish, also used as intra-word punctation (abbreviation mark)
- Related
- ː Modifier Letter Triangular Colon U+02D0˸ Modifier Letter Raised Colon U+02F8։ Armenian Full Stop U+0589׃ Hebrew Punctuation Sof Pasuq U+05C3፡ Ethiopic Wordspace U+1361፥ Ethiopic Colon U+1365꞉ Modifier Letter Colon U+A789︰ Presentation Form For Vertical Two Dot Leader U+FE30
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