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The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, [1] or a quoted sentence. [2] It is also used between hours and minutes in time, [1] between certain elements in medical journal citations, [3] between chapter and verse in Bible citations, [4] and, in the US, for salutations in business letters and other ...
Astronomical symbols – Symbols in astronomy; Chemical symbol – Abbreviations used in chemistry; Chinese punctuation – Punctuation used with Chinese characters; Currency symbol – Symbol used to represent a monetary currency's name; Diacritic – Modifier mark added to a letter (accent marks etc.)
Ethiopic wordspace (፡), a word divider in Geʽez script; In old Turkic script, a colon-like symbol (U+205A ⁚ TWO DOT PUNCTUATION) is sometimes used as a word separator; Question mark § History, two vertical dots used to indicate a question in fifth century Syriac manuscripts; Two dot punctuation mark, used as an obelism
The dagger symbol originated from a variant of the obelus, originally depicted by a plain line − or a line with one or two dots ÷. [7] It represented an iron roasting spit, a dart, or the sharp end of a javelin, [8] symbolizing the skewering or cutting out of dubious matter. [9] [10] [11]
A with vertical line below: À̩ à̩: A with vertical line below and grave: Á̩ á̩: A with vertical line below and acute: Â̩ â̩: A with vertical line below and circumflex: Ã̩ ã̩: A with vertical line below and tilde: Ā̩ ā̩: A with vertical line below and macron: Ǎ̩ ǎ̩: A with vertical line below and caron: A̩̍ a̩̍
TWO DOTS OVER ONE DOT PUNCTUATION U+2E2A: Po, other Common ⸫ ONE DOT OVER TWO DOTS PUNCTUATION U+2E2B: Po, other Common ⸬ SQUARED FOUR DOT PUNCTUATION U+2E2C: Po, other Common ⸭ FIVE DOT MARK U+2E2D: Po, other Common ⸮ REVERSED QUESTION MARK U+2E2E: Po, other Common ⸰ RING POINT U+2E30: Po, other Common ⸱ WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT ...
Historically, medieval Catalan also used the symbol · as a marker for certain elisions, much like the modern apostrophe (see Occitan below) and hyphenations. There is no separate physical keyboard layout for Catalan: the flying point can be typed using ⇧ Shift + 3 in the Spanish (Spain) layout or with Option + ⇧ Shift + 9 on a US English ...
Hazard symbols; List of mathematical constants (typically letters and compound symbols) Glossary of mathematical symbols; List of physical constants (typically letters and compound symbols) List of common physics notations (typically letters used as variable names in equations) Rod of Asclepius / Caduceus as a symbol of medicine