Modifier Letter Colon

Group: More symbols

Keywords

symbols-extra

About this character

Modifier Letter Colon belongs to the More symbols group and is encoded at U+A789. 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+A789
Hex: A789
Decimal: 42889
HTML: ꞉
CSS: \A789
JavaScript: \uA789
Python: \uA789
UTF-8: EA 9E 89

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

North West Triangle-Headed Arrow To Bar U+2B76 Similar
North East Triangle-Headed Arrow To Bar U+2B77 Similar
South East Triangle-Headed Arrow To Bar U+2B78 Similar
South West Triangle-Headed Arrow To Bar U+2B79 Similar
Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Double Horizontal Stroke U+2B7A Similar
Upwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Double Horizontal Stroke U+2B7B Similar
Rightwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Double Horizontal Stroke U+2B7C Similar
Downwards Triangle-Headed Arrow With Double Horizontal Stroke U+2B7D Similar
Horizontal Tab Key U+2B7E Similar
Vertical Tab Key U+2B7F Similar
Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow Over Rightwards Triangle-Headed Arrow U+2B80 Similar
Upwards Triangle-Headed Arrow Leftwards Of Downwards Triangle-Headed Arrow U+2B81 Similar
Rightwards Triangle-Headed Arrow Over Leftwards Triangle-Headed Arrow U+2B82 Similar
Downwards Triangle-Headed Arrow Leftwards Of Upwards Triangle-Headed Arrow U+2B83 Similar
Leftwards Triangle-Headed Paired Arrows U+2B84 Similar
Upwards Triangle-Headed Paired Arrows U+2B85 Similar
Rightwards Triangle-Headed Paired Arrows U+2B86 Similar
Downwards Triangle-Headed Paired Arrows U+2B87 Similar
Leftwards Black Circled White Arrow U+2B88 Similar
Upwards Black Circled White Arrow U+2B89 Similar
Rightwards Black Circled White Arrow U+2B8A Similar
Downwards Black Circled White Arrow U+2B8B Similar
Anticlockwise Triangle-Headed Right U-Shaped Arrow U+2B8C Similar
Anticlockwise Triangle-Headed Bottom U-Shaped Arrow U+2B8D 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.