html-entity

;

;

;

HTML named character reference ; maps to U+003B.

Mapping

Named reference
;
Code point(s)
U+003B
Decimal
59
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 (&#x3B;) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02