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U+2044 · FRACTION SLASH

Fraction Slash

  • CodepointU+2044
  • NameFRACTION SLASH
  • Decimal8260
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySm — Math Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classCS — Common Separator
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2044 (⁄) is FRACTION SLASH, a mathematical symbol in the General Punctuation 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).

How to type ⁄

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 81 843 bytes
UTF-1620441 code unit
UTF-32000020444 bytes
HTML named⁄named character reference
HTML decimal⁄
HTML hex⁄
CSS\2044in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2044
JSON\u2044
Python\u2044
Python\N{FRACTION SLASH}by name
Java / C#\u2044
C / C++\u2044universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2044}
Go\u2044
Ruby\u2044
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8260)
URL-encoded%E2%81%84percent-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+002F/Solidus U+2041⁁Caret Insertion Point U+2215∕Division Slash U+2571╱Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right to Lower Left U+27CB⟋Mathematical Rising Diagonal U+29F8⧸Big Solidus U+3033〳Vertical Kana Repeat Mark Upper Half U+30CEノKatakana Letter No U+1735᜵Philippine Single Punctuation U+2CC6ⳆCoptic Capital Letter Old Coptic Esh U+2F03⼃Kangxi Radical Slash U+31D3㇓CJK Stroke Sp U+4E3F丿CJK Unified Ideograph-4e3f U+1D23A𝈺Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-47
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Characters built on ⁄

U+00BC¼Vulgar Fraction One Quarter U+00BD½Vulgar Fraction One Half U+00BE¾Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters U+2150⅐Vulgar Fraction One Seventh U+2151⅑Vulgar Fraction One Ninth U+2152⅒Vulgar Fraction One Tenth U+2153⅓Vulgar Fraction One Third U+2154⅔Vulgar Fraction Two Thirds U+2155⅕Vulgar Fraction One Fifth U+2156⅖Vulgar Fraction Two Fifths U+2157⅗Vulgar Fraction Three Fifths U+2158⅘Vulgar Fraction Four Fifths U+2159⅙Vulgar Fraction One Sixth U+215A⅚Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths U+215B⅛Vulgar Fraction One Eighth U+215C⅜Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths U+215D⅝Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths U+215E⅞Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths U+215F⅟Fraction Numerator One U+2189↉Vulgar Fraction Zero Thirds
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Nearby in General Punctuation

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U+203E‾Overline U+203F‿Undertie U+2040⁀Character Tie U+2041⁁Caret Insertion Point U+2042⁂Asterism U+2043⁃Hyphen Bullet U+2045⁅Left Square Bracket with Quill U+2046⁆Right Square Bracket with Quill U+2047⁇Double Question Mark U+2048⁈Question Exclamation Mark U+2049⁉Exclamation Question Mark U+204A⁊Tironian Sign Et