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 |