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U+00F7 · DIVISION SIGN

Division Sign

  • CodepointU+00F7
  • NameDIVISION SIGN
  • Decimal247
  • BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySm — Math Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+00F7 (÷) is DIVISION SIGN, a mathematical symbol in the Latin-1 Supplement block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ÷

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C3 B72 bytes
UTF-1600F71 code unit
UTF-32000000F74 bytes
HTML named÷named character reference
HTML named÷named character reference
HTML decimal÷
HTML hex÷
CSS\F7in content: "…"
JavaScript\u00F7
JSON\u00F7
Python\u00F7
Python\N{DIVISION SIGN}by name
Java / C#\u00F7
C / C++\u00F7universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{F7}
Go\u00F7
Ruby\u00F7
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(247)
URL-encoded%C3%B7percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+2797➗Divide
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
U+00F1ñLatin Small Letter N with Tilde U+00F2òLatin Small Letter O with Grave U+00F3óLatin Small Letter O with Acute U+00F4ôLatin Small Letter O with Circumflex U+00F5õLatin Small Letter O with Tilde U+00F6öLatin Small Letter O with Diaeresis U+00F8øLatin Small Letter O with Stroke U+00F9ùLatin Small Letter U with Grave U+00FAúLatin Small Letter U with Acute U+00FBûLatin Small Letter U with Circumflex U+00FCüLatin Small Letter U with Diaeresis U+00FDýLatin Small Letter Y with Acute