Colon (punctuation)

The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, or a quoted sentence. It is also used between hours and minutes in time, between certain elements in medical journal citations, between chapter and verse in Bible citations, and, in the US, for salutations in business letters and other formal letter writing.

This article is about the punctuation mark. For a colon-like character used as an alphabetic letter in some languages, rather than as punctuation, see Colon (letter). For other uses, see Colon (disambiguation).
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