Fractions Symbols

Precomposed vulgar fractions, from halves and quarters through thirds, fifths, sixths and eighths. A single character each, so they stay aligned in plain text.

This group holds 13 characters. They are contiguous, U+2153 through U+215F with nothing else in between, which means they were standardised together as one set. They are drawn from Number Forms (13) in the Unicode Standard, which is what decides how each one is encoded and how software sorts and compares it.

Most of the traffic to this group is for ⅓ and ⅛. The phrase people type for the first of those is third power symbol, which is worth knowing if you are looking for it under another name.

All 13 come from Number Forms: fractions and Roman numerals as single characters. A block is an address rather than a category, and this group is drawn from that block alone.

None of these is listed here with a Windows Alt code, so copying is the route in this drawer.

All 13 carry a numeric value and a compatibility decomposition. The first means software that asks what number a character is gets an answer rather than an error. The second means NFKC normalisation rewrites it into something plainer, so a search box may not return what was pasted into it.

Every character below copies with one click. 12 of them have a guide page as well, with the Windows, Mac and HTML route written out.

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