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U+215E · VULGAR FRACTION SEVEN EIGHTHS

Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths

  • CodepointU+215E
  • NameVULGAR FRACTION SEVEN EIGHTHS
  • Decimal8542
  • 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+215E (⅞) is VULGAR FRACTION SEVEN 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+0037 7 + U+2044 ⁄ + U+0038 8 (compatibility decomposition <fraction>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0037 7 + 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 7/8.

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 ⅞

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 85 9E3 bytes
UTF-16215E1 code unit
UTF-320000215E4 bytes
HTML named&frac78;named character reference
HTML decimal&#8542;
HTML hex&#x215E;
CSS\215Ein content: "…"
JavaScript\u215E
JSON\u215E
Python\u215E
Python\N{VULGAR FRACTION SEVEN EIGHTHS}by name
Java / C#\u215E
C / C++\u215Euniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{215E}
Go\u215E
Ruby\u215E
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8542)
URL-encoded%E2%85%9Epercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0037 7 + U+2044 ⁄ + U+0038 8
NFKDU+0037 7 + U+2044 ⁄ + U+0038 8
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Nearby in Number Forms

All in block →
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+215F⅟Fraction Numerator One U+2160ⅠRoman Numeral One U+2161ⅡRoman Numeral Two U+2162ⅢRoman Numeral Three U+2163ⅣRoman Numeral Four U+2164ⅤRoman Numeral Five