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U+003A – Colon

Find more about the U+003A Unicode character below, including its properties, usage, and encoding details.

CodepointU+003A
NameColon
CategoryOther Punctuation (Po)
ScriptCommon
BlockBasic Latin
PlaneBasic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
VersionUnicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Numeric Character Reference:
Hexadecimal Numeric Character Reference:
HTML Named Character Reference
(HTML Named Entity)
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CSS Character Reference
(CSS Escape Code)
\003A
Links
Plain
https://everychar.com/code/U+003A
Markdown
[U+003A](https://everychar.com/code/U+003A)
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).