U+FE55 "﹕" Small Colon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE55 "﹕" Small Colon is a punctuation mark found in the Small Form Variants block, designed as a narrower, more compact version of the standard colon (U+003A) for use in East Asian typography and vertical writing contexts. It is intended to blend seamlessly with the line spacing and visual proportions of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) fonts, where fullwidth punctuation is common. This small colon appears in technical standards and certain legacy character sets to provide a proportional alternative to its fullwidth counterpart without altering its basic function of separation or introduction in a sentence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE55 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Small Colon |
| Block | Small Form Variants |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Common Separator |
| Decomposition Type | Small |
| Decomposition Mapping | ":" U+003A Colon |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﹕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﹕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB9 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe55 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Nonstarter |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | ":" U+003A Colon |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | ":" U+003A Colon |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Mid Letter |
| Sentence Break | SContinue |