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Colon (punctuation)

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Colon
ː
IPA triangular colon Fullwidth colon Ratio
Punctuation
apostrophe  '
brackets [ ]  ( )  { }  ⟨ ⟩
colon :
comma ,  ،  
dash ‒  –  —  ―
ellipsis  ...      
exclamation merk !
full stap, period .
guillemets ‹ ›  « »
hyphen
hyphen-minus -
quaisten merk ?
quotation merks ‘ ’  “ ”  ' '  " "
semicolon ;
slash, stroke, solidus /    
Wird dividers
interpunct ·
space     
General teepografie
ampersand &
asterisk *
at sign @
backslash \
basis pynt
bullet
caret ^
dagger † ‡ ⹋
degree °
ditto merk
equals sign =
invertit exclamation merk ¡
invertit quaisten merk ¿
komejirushi, kome, reference mark
multiplication sign ×
number sign, pound, hash #
numero sign
obelus ÷
ordinal indicator º ª
percent, per mil % ‰
pilcrow
plus, minus + −
plus-minus, minus-plus ± ∓
prime    
section sign §
tilde ~
unnerscore, unnerstrike _
vertical bar, pipe, broken bar |    ¦
Intellectual property
copyricht ©
copyleft 🄯
soond-recordin copyricht
registered tredmerk ®
service merk
tredmerk
Currency
currency sign ¤

؋฿¢$֏ƒ£元 圆 圓 ¥

Uncommon teepografie
asterism
fleuron, hedera
index, fist
interrobang
irony punctuation
lozenger
tie
Relatit
In ither scripts

The colon is a punctuation merk consistin o twa equally sized dots centred on the same vertical line. A colon is uised tae expleen or stairt an enumeration. A colon is an aa uised wi ratios, teetles an subteetles o beuks, ceety an publisher in bibliographies, oors an minutes, an formal letters.[1]

In Unicode, it is encodit at U+003A : Colon (HTML :).

References

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  1. "Semicolon & Colon Rules". Georgia College Writing Center. Retrieved 17 Apryle 2013.[deid airtin]