Unicode Character "½" U+00BD Vulgar Fraction One Half
Unicode Version 15.1
½
Summary
The unicode character "½" at code point U+00BD is Vulgar Fraction One Half. 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 "½" is 0xC2 0xBD and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x00BD.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00BD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Vulgar Fraction One Half |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Fraction One Half |
| 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 "2" U+0032 Digit Two |
Encodings
| HTML Entity | ½ ½ |
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ½ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ½ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00bd |