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U+2215 · DIVISION SLASH

Division Slash

CodepointU+2215
NameDIVISION SLASH
Decimal8725
BlockMathematical Operators (U+2200–U+22FF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategorySm — Math Symbol
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
MirroredYes

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 88 95`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`2215`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`00002215`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`∕`
HTML hex	`∕`
CSS	`\2215`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u2215`
JSON	`\u2215`
Python	`\u2215`
Python	`\N{DIVISION SLASH}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u2215`
C / C++	`\u2215`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{2215}`
Go	`\u2215`
Ruby	`\u2215`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(8725)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%88%95`	percent-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+2044⁄Fraction 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+33A7㎧Square M Over S U+33A8㎨Square M Over S Squared U+33AE㎮Square Rad Over S U+33AF㎯Square Rad Over S Squared U+33C6㏆Square C Over Kg U+33DE㏞Square V Over M U+33DF㏟Square A Over M

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Nearby in Mathematical Operators

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