See also:꞉[U+A789 MODIFIER LETTER COLON],ː[U+02D0 MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON],ꓽ[U+A4FD LISU LETTER TONE MYA JEU],׃[U+05C3 HEBREW PUNCTUATION SOF PASUQ],։[U+0589 ARMENIAN FULL STOP],⁚[U+205A TWO DOT PUNCTUATION],and∶[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
In ananalogy, is to, linking two or more words or phrases.
(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)
(networking)Separates anIPv6 address into groups of four hexadecimal digits.
2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:ff00:0042:8329
(Internet)With other text, denotes the start of a string to be replaced by a pictorial emoticon.
Used after a letter as a nonstandard representation of anumlaut ordiaeresis, when technical limitations prevent the use of one.
1990 January 26, porpentine[username], “Re: Mommy! Gene hit me first!”, inalt.rock-n-roll.metal[1] (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).
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:
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-----.”
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) ―c. 50 miles(circa)
Vårdsnäsk:a(kyrka) ―Vårdsnäsch.(church)
S:t Petersburg(Sankt) ―St. Petersburg(Saint)
Kungl.Maj:ts resolution(Majestäts) ―H.M. resolution(His Majesty's) (a government decree)
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Colon (punctuation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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