html-entity

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HTML named character reference : maps to U+003A.

Mapping

Named reference
:
Code point(s)
U+003A
Decimal
58
Characters
:

Numeric character references

Named
Decimal
Hex

Usage

Prefer a named reference when the character must survive encoding mistakes or is awkward to type. Numeric references (:) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02