# Unsupported titles/:

| : | U+003A, &#58; COLON |
| ← 9 [U+0039] | Basic Latin | ; → [U+003B] |
| ﹕ | U+FE55, &#65109; SMALL COLON |
| ← ﹔ [U+FE54] | Small Form Variants | ﹖ → [U+FE56] |
| ： | U+FF1A, &#65306; FULLWIDTH COLON |
| ← ９ [U+FF19] | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | ； → [U+FF1B] |
| ︓ | U+FE13, &#65043; PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL COLON |
| ← ︒ [U+FE12] | Vertical Forms | ︔ → [U+FE14] |

## Translingual
### Etymology

A simplification of the punctus elevatus, ⟨⹎⟩.

### Description

Two vertically-aligned dots.

### Symbol

* (mathematics) division
    Alternative form: ∶ (U+2236 RATIO)
    6 : 2 = 3

### Punctuation mark

: (English name colon)
* Introduces a quotation.
    Mary gave advice to her children: a stitch in time saves nine.
    Patient: Is there a doctor in here?
* Introduces a sentence with the role of apposition with respect to the previous one.
    Luruns could not speak: he was drunk.
* Introduces the logical consequence, or effect, of a fact stated before.
    There was only one possible explanation: the train had never arrived
* Separation of clauses in a periodic sentence.
* Separates hours, minutes, and seconds when reporting time.
    Synonym: .
    The train leaves at 5:40.
* Separates numbers in a ratio.
    Alternative form: ∶ (U+2236 RATIO)
    There is a 5:4 ratio of boys to girls in my class.
* Separation of a title and the corresponding subtitle.
    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
* (information science) Separate elements of a bibliographic reference, such as chapter and verses of the bible, or volumes and pages of a work.
    John 3:14–16 (or John III:14–16)
* Used after a letter as a nonstandard representation of an umlaut or diaeresis, when technical limitations prevent the use of one.
** 1990 January 26, porpentine [username], “Re: Mommy! Gene hit me first!”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal‎ (Usenet; in English):I agree, most of the people who are listening to Whitesnake/Skid Row/Guns-n-Roses-Dude/insert_your_favorite_cheese_metal_band now will have forgotten about them in a few years. I don't think you can say the same of, say, Fates Warning, King's X, or the older metal bands (Black Sabbath version 1, Blue O:yster Cult, Moto:rhead, arguably Aerosmith).
* (taxonomy) Separates different levels of an abbreviated taxonomy.
    A new species of fly (Diptera: Tachinidae: Musca)
* (music) A pointing mark in Anglican chant, which marks the place which splits a verse in two, corresponding to the central double barline in a two-part chant (unless otherwise indicated by ‖).
    Coordinate terms: |, ', *, ⋅, —, ‖, †
* Used in : :.
* For the IPA triangular colon symbol, which marks long vowels, see ː.
* For the "modifier colon" symbol, used in some languages for long vowels, see ꞉.
* For the Armenian full stop, see ։.
* For the Hebrew and Aramaic punctuation mark which marks the end of a passage, see ׃.
* For the six-dot Braille characters consisting of two vertically-aligned dots, see ⠃, ⠅, ⠆, ⠘, ⠨, ⠰.
* For the eight-dot Braille extension characters consisting of two vertically-aligned dots, see ⡁, ⡂, ⡄, ⢈, ⢐, ⢠.

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Unsupported titles/:.

#### Related terms

* (diacritical mark): ', "
* (mathematics): ÷

#### See also

* Colon (punctuation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Punctuation
* apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
* curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
* square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
* colon ( : )
* comma ( , )
* dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
* ellipsis ( … )
* exclamation mark ( ! )
* fraction slash ( ⁄ )
* guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
* hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
* interpunct ( · )
* interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
* brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
* full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
* question mark ( ? )
* quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
* quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
* semicolon ( ; )
* slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
* space ( ] [ )

### Symbol

* (computing) Indicates a storage or media drive letter (with or without path).
    C: is the default system drive on Windows.
* (networking) Separates the parts of an IPv6 address.
    2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:ff00:0042:8329
* (Internet) Represents two eyes vertically aligned, in order to form emoticons.

#### See also
## Finnish
### Punctuation mark

* Connects a suffix or clitic to a number, abbreviation, initialism or individual letter.
    Hinta on TKY:n jäsenille 10 €, muille 20 €.The price is €10 for the members of TKY, €20 for all others.
    SAK:kin on samaa mieltäSAK too shares that opinion.

#### Usage notes

If a numeric expression consists of a number and a headword which indicates the case, the numeral is written without the case suffix:
    Ostin 10 000 [kymmenellätuhannella] eurolla Nokian osakkeita. Ostin 10 000 €:lla Nokian osakkeita.I bought €10,000 worth of Nokia's shares.
If a numeric expression consists of a number and a headword, and the numeral is in nominative singular, the headword is in partitive singular (base case), and the headword is an abbreviation, the partitive case is not indicated:
    Osakkeet maksoivat 10 000 € [kymmenentuhatta euroa].The shares cost €10,000.
    Et ole vielä maksanut niitä 10 000:ta [kymmentätuhatta] euroa, jotka olet minulle velkaa.You have not yet paid that €10,000 which you owe me.
If an abbreviation or initialism is read as a word (as opposed to letter by letter), the colon is not used:
    Hinta on ERTOn jäsenille 10 €, muille 20 €.The price is €10 for the members of ERTO, €20 for everyone else.

## Latin
### Punctuation mark

* (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Used to mark abbreviations.
** c. 16th century, manuscript, quoted in “Elizabeth I: Translations, 1544–1589” (in English), Janel Mueller, Joshua Scodel, editors, 2009, →ISBN, page 460:This verse translation was entered in the manuscript in a secretary hand that Rugh Hughey, the editor of the Arundel Harington manuscript, tentatively assigned to the mid- or late sixteenth century; in the right margin at the end of the text, an italic hand of uncertain date has written “E.R. Ꝑ re:”. […] these letters can be expanded to “per re-----.”(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1686, John Riley, portrait of Bridget Holmes (image), inscription at the bottom left corner:
    BRİDGET. HOLMES / ETA:$^S$ SUÆ: 96 / A:D:1686:·
       BRIDGET. HOLMES / ETA[TI]S SUAE 96 / A[NNO] D[OMINI] 1686:·
** 1756 January 28, Leopold Lamprecht, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s baptismal record (image)
    Joan̄es Chryſoſt: Wolfgangus Theophilus fil: leg: / Nob: D: Leopoldus Mozart Aulæ Musicus, et Maria An̄a Pertlin giuges.
       Joannes Chrysost[omus] Wolfgangus Theophilus fil[ius] leg[itimus] / Nob[ilis] D[ominus] Leopoldus Mozart Aulae Musicus, et Maria Anna Pertlin giuges.
** 1817, sovereign (British coin), obverse inscription (image)
    GEORGIUS III D:G:BRITANNIAR:REX F:D:
       GEORGIUS III D[EI] G[RATIA] BRITANNIAR[UM] REX F[IDEI] D[EFENSOR]
       George III, by the Grace of God, of the Britains King, Defender of the Faith.
* (Old Latin) A word divider.
** 7th century BC, Praeneste fibula:
    𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔:𐌌𐌄𐌃:𐌅𐌇𐌄⁝𐌅𐌇𐌀𐌊𐌄𐌃:𐌍𐌖𐌌𐌀𐌔𐌉𐌏𐌉MANIOS:MED:FHE⁝FHAKED:NVMASIOIManios made me for Numasios.

#### Synonyms

* (word boundary): ] [, ·, ⁝

### References

* Gavinelli, Simona (2020) “Early Carolingian: Italy”, in The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography, →ISBN, pages 268–9

## Northern Sami
### Punctuation mark

* Connects a suffix or clitic to a number, abbreviation, initialism or individual letter.
    Filbma lea čájehuvvon TV:s ― The film has been shown on TV
    Mis lea šiehtadus NSR:in ― We have an agreement with the NSR [the Norwegian Sámi Association]
    Son riegádii 1998:s ― She was born in 1998
    Goas almmuhii son CD:a? ― When did he release the CD?

## Swedish
### Punctuation mark

* Connects a suffix or clitic to a number, abbreviation or initialism.
    EU:s vinmarknad ― The EU's wine market
    Tv:n är trasig. ― The TV is broken.
    den 13:e mars ― March the 13th
    två vd:ar ― two CEOs
* Marks the contraction of a word, separating the beginning and end (first and last letter, replacing the period of a standard abbreviation in front of an ending)
    c:a 50 mil (cirka) ― circa 50 miles
    Vårdsnäs k:a (kyrka) ― Vårdsnäs church
    S:t Petersburg (Sankt) ― Saint Petersburg
    Kungl. Maj:ts resolution (Majestäts) ― His Majesty's resolution (a government decree)
    Bibliografi till förf:s 60-årsdag (författarens, standard abbreviation förf.) ― Bibliography to the author's 60th anniversary