Vulgar Fraction One Half ½
Symbol Meaning
Simple fraction “one half”. Written with one character instead of a sequence of three: “1/2”. It can be convenient when writing formulas.
Shows half of something. It is 0.5, zero five.
A simple fraction is a fraction whose numerator is less than the denominator.
The symbol “Vulgar Fraction One Half” is included in the “Vulgar fractions” subblock of the “Latin-1 Supplement” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Vulgar Fraction One Half |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ½ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Unicode Subblock | Vulgar fractions |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
Alt 171(English Keyboard Layout)
|
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 00BD |
| Simple case change | 00BD |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | C2 BD | 194 189 | 49853 | 11000010 10111101 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 BD | 0 189 | 189 | 00000000 10111101 |
| UTF-16LE | BD 00 | 189 0 | 48384 | 10111101 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 BD | 0 0 0 189 | 189 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 10111101 |
| UTF-32LE | BD 00 00 00 | 189 0 0 0 | 3170893824 | 10111101 00000000 00000000 00000000 |
