Unicode Character ":" (U+003A)

The character : (Colon) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+003A. It is encoded in the Basic Latin block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as :.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Colon
Unicode Codepoint U+003A
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Basic Latin
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Common Separator (CS)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+003A Conversion

HTML (decimal) :
HTML (hex) :
HTML (named) :
URL Escape Code %3A
CSS \00003A
JavaScript, JSON \u003A
C, C++, Java \u003A
Python \u003A
Rust \u{003A}
Ruby \u003A

How to type ":"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 3 A. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 3 A. Release Alt.

Preview

  • :
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • :
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • :
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0x3A
UTF-16 (hex) 0x003A
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000003A

Characters based on ":" (U+003A)

References