colon

Punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line

EntityQ177449

Also known as :

Subclass of: punctuation mark
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1.Stated in Q24390809
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Part of: double colon

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The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, or a quoted sentence. It is also used between hours, minutes and seconds in time, between certain elements in medical journal citations, between chapter and verse in Bible citations, between two numbers in a ratio, and, in the US, for salutations in business letters and other formal letters.

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24 statements · 13% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Unicode character: : unicode code point: 003A · html entity: &colon;
： applies to part: Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms · unicode code point: FF1A
Different from: umlaut
Has use: path separator used by: Classic Mac OS
delimiter part of: PATH
Code: ---... encoding: Morse code
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1.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/m/R-REC-M.1677-1-200910-I!!PDF-E.pdf
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16 identifiers linking colon across the web's reference databases

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