Colon Sign

Group: Currency

Keywords

currency

About this character

Colon Sign belongs to the Currency group and is encoded at U+20A1. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+20A1
Hex: 20A1
Decimal: 8353
HTML: ₡
CSS: \20A1
JavaScript: \u20A1
Python: \u20A1
UTF-8: E2 82 A1

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Euro-Currency Sign U+20A0 Similar
Cruzeiro Sign U+20A2 Similar
French Franc Sign U+20A3 Similar
Lira Sign U+20A4 Similar
Mill Sign U+20A5 Similar
Naira Sign U+20A6 Similar
Peseta Sign U+20A7 Similar
Rupee Sign U+20A8 Similar
Won Sign U+20A9 Similar
New Sheqel Sign U+20AA Similar
Dong Sign U+20AB Similar
Euro Sign U+20AC Similar
Kip Sign U+20AD Similar
Tugrik Sign U+20AE Similar
Drachma Sign U+20AF Similar
German Penny Sign U+20B0 Similar
Peso Sign U+20B1 Similar
Guarani Sign U+20B2 Similar
Austral Sign U+20B3 Similar
Hryvnia Sign U+20B4 Similar
Cedi Sign U+20B5 Similar
Livre Tournois Sign U+20B6 Similar
Spesmilo Sign U+20B7 Similar
Tenge Sign U+20B8 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.