U+00BC VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER

¼

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Decimal / Nº
188
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
Unknown

Character Details

The Unicode character U+00BC, officially named VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Latin 1 Sup block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as FRACTION ONE QUARTER.

Categorized technically as a Other Number, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is Unknown and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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188 Copied!
UTF-8 C2 BC Copied!
UTF-16 00 BC Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 00 BC Copied!
URL-Quoted %C2%BC Copied!
HTML hex reference ¼ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'00BC' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u00BC Copied!
C and C++ \u00bc Copied!
C# \u00bc Copied!
CSS \0000BC Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(188) Copied!
Go \u00bc Copied!
JavaScript \u00BC Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{00bc} Copied!
JSON \u00BC Copied!
Java \u00BC Copied!
Lua \u{00BC} Copied!
Matlab char(188) Copied!
Perl \x{00BC} Copied!
PHP \u{00bc} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\00BC' Copied!
PowerShell `u{00BC} Copied!
Python \u00bc Copied!
Ruby \u{00bc} Copied!
Rust \u{00bc} Copied!