U+003A ":" Colon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+003A ":" Colon is a punctuation mark used to introduce a list, a quotation, an explanation, or a related idea in written language. It commonly appears in time notation to separate hours from minutes, in mathematical ratios, and in programming languages for labeling statements or defining key-value pairs. As a standardized character in the ASCII range, the colon occupies code point 003A in Unicode and is a fundamental element of typography and digital text encoding worldwide.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+003A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Colon |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Common Separator |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | : |
| HTML Hex Encoding | : |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x3A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x003A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000003A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u003a |