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U+02D0 · MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON

Modifier Letter Triangular Colon

  • CodepointU+02D0
  • NameMODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON
  • Decimal720
  • BlockSpacing Modifier Letters (U+02B0–U+02FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryLm — Modifier Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+02D0 (ː) is MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON, a modifier letter in the Spacing Modifier Letters block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

How to type ː

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8CB 902 bytes
UTF-1602D01 code unit
UTF-32000002D04 bytes
HTML decimalː
HTML hexː
CSS\2D0in content: "…"
JavaScript\u02D0
JSON\u02D0
Python\u02D0
Python\N{MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON}by name
Java / C#\u02D0
C / C++\u02D0universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2D0}
Go\u02D0
Ruby\u02D0
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(720)
URL-encoded%CB%90percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+003A:Colon U+02F8˸Modifier Letter Raised Colon U+0589։Armenian Full Stop U+05C3׃Hebrew Punctuation Sof Pasuq U+0903◌ःDevanagari Sign Visarga U+16EC᛬Runic Multiple Punctuation U+205A⁚Two Dot Punctuation U+2236∶Ratio U+FF1A：Fullwidth Colon U+0703܃Syriac Supralinear Colon U+0704܄Syriac Sublinear Colon U+0A83◌ઃGujarati Sign Visarga U+1803᠃Mongolian Full Stop U+1809᠉Mongolian Manchu Full Stop U+A4FDꓽLisu Letter Tone Mya Jeu U+A789꞉Modifier Letter Colon
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Characters built on ː

U+10781𐞁Modifier Letter Superscript Triangular Colon
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Nearby in Spacing Modifier Letters

All in block →
U+02CAˊModifier Letter Acute Accent U+02CBˋModifier Letter Grave Accent U+02CCˌModifier Letter Low Vertical Line U+02CDˍModifier Letter Low Macron U+02CEˎModifier Letter Low Grave Accent U+02CFˏModifier Letter Low Acute Accent U+02D1ˑModifier Letter Half Triangular Colon U+02D2˒Modifier Letter Centred Right Half Ring U+02D3˓Modifier Letter Centred Left Half Ring U+02D4˔Modifier Letter Up Tack U+02D5˕Modifier Letter Down Tack U+02D6˖Modifier Letter Plus Sign