Semicolon
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 59 on the numeric keypad to insert semicolon.
- Alt code
- Alt+59
- HTML entity
- ;
- Unicode
- U+003B
About this symbol
The semicolon was first printed by the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius in 1496, in a book by Pietro Bembo, as a pause longer than a comma and shorter than a colon. The Greek language uses the same mark as its question mark.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SEMICOLON
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- This, and not 037E, is the preferred character for “Greek question mark”
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.