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U+00BD · VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF

Vulgar Fraction One Half

CodepointU+00BD
NameVULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
Decimal189
BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategoryNo — Other Number
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`C2 BD`	2 bytes
UTF-16	`00BD`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000000BD`	4 bytes
HTML named	`&half;`	named character reference
HTML named	`½`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`½`
HTML hex	`½`
CSS	`\BD`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u00BD`
JSON	`\u00BD`
Python	`\u00BD`
Python	`\N{VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u00BD`
C / C++	`\u00BD`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{BD}`
Go	`\u00BD`
Ruby	`\u00BD`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(189)`
URL-encoded	`%C2%BD`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Normalization forms

NFC	unchanged
NFD	unchanged
NFKC	`U+0031` 1 + `U+2044` ⁄ + `U+0032` 2
NFKD	`U+0031` 1 + `U+2044` ⁄ + `U+0032` 2

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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →

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