Colon
Group: Punctuation
Keywords
About this character
Colon belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+003A. 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
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U+003A - Hex
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003A - Decimal
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58 - HTML
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: - CSS
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\3A - JavaScript
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\u003A - Python
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\u003A - UTF-8
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3A
The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.