U+2153 VULGAR FRACTION ONE THIRD

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Decimal / Nº
8531
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
Unknown

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2153, officially named VULGAR FRACTION ONE THIRD, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Number Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as FRACTION ONE THIRD.

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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8531 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 85 93 Copied!
UTF-16 21 53 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 53 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%85%93 Copied!
HTML hex reference ⅓ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2153' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2153 Copied!
C and C++ \u2153 Copied!
C# \u2153 Copied!
CSS \002153 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8531) Copied!
Go \u2153 Copied!
JavaScript \u2153 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2153} Copied!
JSON \u2153 Copied!
Java \u2153 Copied!
Lua \u{2153} Copied!
Matlab char(8531) Copied!
Perl \x{2153} Copied!
PHP \u{2153} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2153' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2153} Copied!
Python \u2153 Copied!
Ruby \u{2153} Copied!
Rust \u{2153} Copied!