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Technical information

Symbol¾
NameVulgar fraction three quarters
Unicode numberU+00BE
CategoryLatin-1 Supplement3. Vulgar fractions
DescriptionThe Unicode character ¾, or U+00BE, is known as the "Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters". 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 "3" and "4" with a slash between them, symbolizing the mathematical operation of division. The Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters is widely used in writing and publishing to represent the fraction 3/4. 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 three quarters in various types of text.

Encoding

HTML Entity¾
HTML Entity (hex)¾
HTML Entity (named)¾
URL Escape Code%C2%BE
UTF-8 (hex)0xC2 0xBE
UTF-8 (binary)1100001010111110
UTF-160x00BE
UTF-320x000000BE

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u00BE"
CSS Code\00BE
JavaScript"\u00BE"
Perl\x{00BE}
Python 2u"\u00BE"
Python 3\u00BE
Ruby\u{00BE}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ¾ in sentence and in bold like this ¾ and in italic like this ¾.

Font size:

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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>&#190;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\00BE";
}

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