½ Vulgar Fraction One Half
U+00BD
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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.
Vulgar Fraction One Half was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993.
Properties
| Age | 1.1 |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Bidi Paired Bracket Type | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case Folding | 00BD |
| Simple Case Folding | 00BD |
Related characters
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⅐
Vulgar Fraction One Seventh
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⅓
Vulgar Fraction One Third
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𐹻
Rumi Fraction One Half
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⅑
Vulgar Fraction One Ninth
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⅛
Vulgar Fraction One Eighth
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⅙
Vulgar Fraction One Sixth
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⅕
Vulgar Fraction One Fifth
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⅒
Vulgar Fraction One Tenth
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¼
Vulgar Fraction One Quarter
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⅗
Vulgar Fraction Three Fifths
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¾
Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters
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⅟
Fraction Numerator One
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⅞
Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths
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⅝
Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths
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⅜
Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
Encoding
| 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 |
