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Technical information

Symbol	;
Name	Semicolon
Unicode number	U+003B
Category	ASCII Table 4. ASCII punctuation and symbols

Description

The Unicode character ;, or U+003B, is known as the "Semicolon". It is part of the "Basic Latin" block and the "Punctuation, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The semicolon is used in written language to connect closely related ideas within a single sentence or to separate items of a list when the items themselves contain commas. It provides a pause that is longer than a comma but shorter than a full stop (or period). In computer programming, semicolons are often used to separate statements or to indicate the end of a statement, depending on the language.

Encoding

HTML Entity	;
HTML Entity (hex)	;
HTML Entity (named)	;
URL Escape Code	%3B
UTF-8 (hex)	0x3B
UTF-8 (binary)	00111011
UTF-16	0x003B
UTF-32	0x0000003B

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u003B"
CSS Code	\003B
JavaScript	"\u003B"
Perl	\x{003B}
Python 2	u"\u003B"
Python 3	\u003B
Ruby	\u{003B}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ; in sentence and in bold like this ; and in italic like this ;.

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

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disabled input

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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#59;</span>

span {
    content: "\003B";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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Apple Color Emoji

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Arial

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BlinkMacSystemFont

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Courier New

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Georgia

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Droid Sans

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Helvetica

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Noto Sans

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Oxygen

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Roboto

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"Segoe UI"

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sans-serif

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Segoe UI Emoji

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Segoe UI Symbol

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system-ui

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Times New Roman

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Ubuntu

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Verdana

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