U+215A VULGAR FRACTION FIVE SIXTHS

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Decimal / Nº
8538
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
Unknown

Character Details

The Unicode character U+215A, officially named VULGAR FRACTION FIVE SIXTHS, 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 FIVE SIXTHS.

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 no designated width 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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8538 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 85 9A Copied!
UTF-16 21 5A Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 5A Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%85%9A Copied!
HTML hex reference ⅚ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'215A' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u215A Copied!
C and C++ \u215a Copied!
C# \u215a Copied!
CSS \00215A Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8538) Copied!
Go \u215a Copied!
JavaScript \u215A Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{215a} Copied!
JSON \u215A Copied!
Java \u215A Copied!
Lua \u{215A} Copied!
Matlab char(8538) Copied!
Perl \x{215A} Copied!
PHP \u{215a} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\215A' Copied!
PowerShell `u{215A} Copied!
Python \u215a Copied!
Ruby \u{215a} Copied!
Rust \u{215a} Copied!