# \colon

The : symbol (Colon, U+003A), written as \colon in LaTeX math mode.

https://texform.dev/latex/symbols/colon

## Metadata

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Topic | [Miscellaneous symbols](https://texform.dev/latex/topics/miscellaneous) |
| Packages | base |
| Allowed mode | math |
| Glyph | : |
| Unicode | U+003A COLON |
| Delimiter | No |

## Syntax

```latex
\colon
```

Takes no arguments.

## Usage frequency

0.52% of formulas in the measured corpus contain this entry, rank 83 of 474 entries with frequency data.

## In TeXForm

TeXForm parses this entry as a character leaf mapped to U+003A (COLON).