Modifier Letter Colon

U+A789

About Modifier Letter Colon

Modifier Letter Colon is the Unicode character ꞉ at codepoint U+A789 in the Latin Extended-D block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Developer Notes

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Modifier Letter Colon

To use the Modifier Letter Colon symbol (꞉) in HTML, insert the entity ꞉ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ꞉ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\A789';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\uA789' evaluates to ꞉. In Python source, write '\uA789'.

The character encodes to EA 9E 89 as UTF-8 bytes and A789 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 42889.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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