U+E003A "" Tag Colon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E003A "" Tag Colon is a specialized invisible formatting character belonging to the Unicode “Tags” block, designed primarily for use in language tagging within plain text, where it functions as a visible colon shape in the legacy Unicode tag mechanism. This character was intended to be used in combination with other tag characters to encode language or region information, such as in the deprecated Unicode “Language Tag” system for marking text with a specific language identifier. However, its practical usage is extremely rare in modern computing, as the system it supported has been largely superseded by the more universal and robust BCP 47 language tags and other metadata methods, making the Tag Colon mostly a historical artifact within the Unicode standard.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
󠀺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
󠀺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF3 0xA0 0x80 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xDB40 0xDC3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000E003A |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\udb40\udc3a |
Unicode Properties