Unicode Character "¼" U+00BC Vulgar Fraction One Quarter

Unicode Version 15.1

¼

Summary

The unicode character "¼" at code point U+00BC is Vulgar Fraction One Quarter. It is a character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is part of the Common script. The character is an other number. The UTF-8 encoding of "¼" is 0xC2 0xBC and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x00BC.

General Properties

Code Point U+00BC
Version Added 1.1
Name Vulgar Fraction One Quarter
Unicode 1.0 Name Fraction One Quarter
Block Latin-1 Supplement
General Category Other Number
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral
Decomposition Type Fraction
Decomposition Mapping "1" U+0031 Digit One
"⁄" U+2044 Fraction Slash
"4" U+0034 Digit Four

Encodings

HTML Entity ¼
HTML Decimal Encoding ¼
HTML Hex Encoding ¼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xC2 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x00BC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000000BC
C/C++/Java Escape \u00bc

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Expands On NFKC Yes
Expands On NKFD Yes
Numeric Type Numeric
Numeric Value 1/4
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "1" U+0031 Digit One
"⁄" U+2044 Fraction Slash
"4" U+0034 Digit Four
NFKC Simple Casefold "1" U+0031 Digit One
"⁄" U+2044 Fraction Slash
"4" U+0034 Digit Four
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other