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U+215D · VULGAR FRACTION FIVE EIGHTHS

Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths

  • CodepointU+215D
  • NameVULGAR FRACTION FIVE EIGHTHS
  • Decimal8541
  • 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+215D (⅝) is VULGAR FRACTION FIVE EIGHTHS, 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+0035 5 + U+2044 ⁄ + U+0038 8 (compatibility decomposition <fraction>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0035 5 + U+2044 ⁄ + U+0038 8. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

It has the numeric value 5/8.

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 ⅝

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 85 9D3 bytes
UTF-16215D1 code unit
UTF-320000215D4 bytes
HTML named&frac58;named character reference
HTML decimal&#8541;
HTML hex&#x215D;
CSS\215Din content: "…"
JavaScript\u215D
JSON\u215D
Python\u215D
Python\N{VULGAR FRACTION FIVE EIGHTHS}by name
Java / C#\u215D
C / C++\u215Duniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{215D}
Go\u215D
Ruby\u215D
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8541)
URL-encoded%E2%85%9Dpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0035 5 + U+2044 ⁄ + U+0038 8
NFKDU+0035 5 + U+2044 ⁄ + U+0038 8
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Nearby in Number Forms

All in block →
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+215E⅞Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths U+215F⅟Fraction Numerator One U+2160ⅠRoman Numeral One U+2161ⅡRoman Numeral Two U+2162ⅢRoman Numeral Three U+2163ⅣRoman Numeral Four