How to type Two Thirds
To type Two Thirds (⅔), press Alt + 8532 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ⅔ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+2154 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2154 on Linux, or 2154 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Vulgar Fraction Two Thirds
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2154
- Windows
- Alt + 8532 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8532 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ⅔ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+2154 | VULGAR FRACTION TWO THIRDS |
Other fractions symbols
⅔ lives in the Number Forms block (U+2150-U+218F), fractions and Roman numerals as single characters. Within Unicode it is classified as No, a number that is not a digit. Fractions and superscript digits sit here.
What happens to ⅔ in a search box
⅔ is a precomposed fraction: Unicode says it can be rewritten as 2⁄3, three separate characters. Anything that normalises text to NFKC before comparing it does exactly that, which is why ⅔ pasted into a search field, a URL slug or a username can come back as 2⁄3 and match text that never contained ⅔ at all. NFC, the form this site uses, leaves it alone. Unicode also records its numeric value as 0.6666666666666666, so software that asks a character what number it is gets 0.6666666666666666 rather than an error.
How Two Thirds behaves in software
⅔ is East Asian Ambiguous: one column in a Western locale and two in a CJK one. That is why a table that lines up on your machine can break on somebody else's, with no change to the text at all. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
Every way to write Two Thirds
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2154 |
| Decimal | 8532 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 85 94 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 21 54 |
| HTML entity | ⅔ |
| HTML numeric | ⅔ or ⅔ |
| CSS | \2154 |
| JavaScript | \u2154 |
| Python | \u2154 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%85%94 |
| SVG | 2154.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ⅔ arrives as â…”
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 85 94 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.