¼

Technical information

Symbol¼
NameVulgar fraction one quarter
Unicode numberU+00BC
CategoryLatin-1 Supplement3. Vulgar fractions
DescriptionThe Unicode character ¼, or U+00BC, is known as the "Vulgar Fraction One Quarter". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Number, Other" category. Visually, it combines the numbers "1" and "4" with a slash between them, which represents the mathematical operation of division. The Vulgar Fraction One Quarter is commonly used in writing and publishing to denote the fraction 1/4. It is especially useful in contexts such as recipes, measurements, or any other situation where fractions are required. The specific usage of the Vulgar Fraction One Quarter can depend on the particular conventions of a discipline, but it generally serves as a convenient symbol for expressing the fraction one quarter in any form of text.

Encoding

HTML Entity¼
HTML Entity (hex)¼
HTML Entity (named)¼
URL Escape Code%C2%BC
UTF-8 (hex)0xC2 0xBC
UTF-8 (binary)1100001010111100
UTF-160x00BC
UTF-320x000000BC

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u00BC"
CSS Code\00BC
JavaScript"\u00BC"
Perl\x{00BC}
Python 2u"\u00BC"
Python 3\u00BC
Ruby\u{00BC}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ¼ in sentence and in bold like this ¼ and in italic like this ¼.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#188;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\00BC";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References