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U+2153 · VULGAR FRACTION ONE THIRD

Vulgar Fraction One Third

  • CodepointU+2153
  • NameVULGAR FRACTION ONE THIRD
  • Decimal8531
  • BlockNumber Forms (U+2150–U+218F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryNo — Other Number
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2153 (⅓) is VULGAR FRACTION ONE THIRD, a numeric character in the Number Forms 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).

It is a precomposed fraction equal to U+0031 1 + U+2044 ⁄ + U+0033 3 (compatibility decomposition <fraction>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0031 1 + U+2044 ⁄ + U+0033 3. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

It has the numeric value 1/3.

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 ⅓

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 85 933 bytes
UTF-1621531 code unit
UTF-32000021534 bytes
HTML named&frac13;named character reference
HTML decimal&#8531;
HTML hex&#x2153;
CSS\2153in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2153
JSON\u2153
Python\u2153
Python\N{VULGAR FRACTION ONE THIRD}by name
Java / C#\u2153
C / C++\u2153universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2153}
Go\u2153
Ruby\u2153
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8531)
URL-encoded%E2%85%93percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0031 1 + U+2044 ⁄ + U+0033 3
NFKDU+0031 1 + U+2044 ⁄ + U+0033 3
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Nearby in Number Forms

All in block →
U+2150⅐Vulgar Fraction One Seventh U+2151⅑Vulgar Fraction One Ninth U+2152⅒Vulgar Fraction One Tenth 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