U+215C VULGAR FRACTION THREE EIGHTHS

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Decimal / Nº
8540
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
Unknown

Character Details

The Unicode character U+215C, officially named VULGAR FRACTION THREE EIGHTHS, 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 THREE EIGHTHS.

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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8540 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 85 9C Copied!
UTF-16 21 5C Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 5C Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%85%9C Copied!
HTML hex reference ⅜ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'215C' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u215C Copied!
C and C++ \u215c Copied!
C# \u215c Copied!
CSS \00215C Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8540) Copied!
Go \u215c Copied!
JavaScript \u215C Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{215c} Copied!
JSON \u215C Copied!
Java \u215C Copied!
Lua \u{215C} Copied!
Matlab char(8540) Copied!
Perl \x{215C} Copied!
PHP \u{215c} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\215C' Copied!
PowerShell `u{215C} Copied!
Python \u215c Copied!
Ruby \u{215c} Copied!
Rust \u{215c} Copied!