U+215B "⅛" Vulgar Fraction One Eighth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⅛
U+215B "⅛" Vulgar Fraction One Eighth is a precomposed typographic symbol representing the fraction one eighth, used to denote the quantity resulting from dividing a whole into eight equal parts and taking one of them. Encoded in the Number Forms block of Unicode, it is designed for convenient use in text, allowing writers to display the fraction in a single character rather than using separate digits and a slash, such as 1/8. This character is commonly employed in recipes, measurements, mathematical notations, and other contexts where fractional quantities are frequently expressed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+215B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Vulgar Fraction One Eighth |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Fraction One Eighth |
| 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 "8" U+0038 Digit Eight |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⅛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⅛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x85 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x215B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000215B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u215b |