U+00BD VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF

The Unicode character U+00BD, officially named VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF, 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 HALF.

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.