½

Technical information

Symbol	½
Name	Vulgar fraction one half
Unicode number	U+00BD
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 3. Vulgar fractions

Description

The Unicode character ½, or U+00BD, is known as the "Vulgar Fraction One Half". It belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Number, Other" category. Visually, it represents the numbers "1" and "2" with a slash between them, symbolizing the mathematical operation of division. The Vulgar Fraction One Half is widely used in writing and publishing to represent the fraction 1/2. It's commonly found in contexts like recipes, measurements, or other situations where fractions are needed. Its specific usage can depend on the particular conventions of a field, but it generally serves as a convenient symbol for expressing the fraction one half in various types of text.

Encoding

HTML Entity	½
HTML Entity (hex)	½
HTML Entity (named)	½
URL Escape Code	%C2%BD
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC2 0xBD
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001010111101
UTF-16	0x00BD
UTF-32	0x000000BD

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00BD"
CSS Code	\00BD
JavaScript	"\u00BD"
Perl	\x{00BD}
Python 2	u"\u00BD"
Python 3	\u00BD
Ruby	\u{00BD}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ½ in sentence and in bold like this ½ and in italic like this ½.

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#189;</span>

span {
    content: "\00BD";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system

Apple Color Emoji

Arial

BlinkMacSystemFont

Courier New

Georgia

Droid Sans

Helvetica

Noto Sans

Oxygen

Roboto

"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

Segoe UI Emoji

Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

Times New Roman

Ubuntu

Verdana

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