U+2153 "⅓" Vulgar Fraction One Third Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⅓
U+2153 "⅓" Vulgar Fraction One Third is a single typographic glyph representing the mathematical fraction one third, designed for use in text to improve readability and aesthetic consistency in contexts like recipes, measurements, and numerical notations. It is part of the Number Forms block in Unicode, encoded specifically to allow users to display a precomposed fraction rather than constructing it from separate digits and a slash. This character significantly enhances visual presentation in documents, as it aligns with the line height of surrounding text and avoids the inconsistent spacing or awkward formatting often produced by alternative combinations, such as “1/3”.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2153 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Vulgar Fraction One Third |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Fraction One Third |
| Block | Number Forms |
| 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 "3" U+0033 Digit Three |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⅓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⅓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x85 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2153 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002153 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2153 |