U+215D "⅝" Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths Unicode Character
U+215D "⅝" Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths is a precomposed typographic symbol that represents the numerical value 0.625, or five parts out of eight equal total parts. It belongs to the Number Forms block within the Unicode standard, which was designed to provide compact, single-character representations for common fractions that follow the visual styling of traditional typography. This character is distinct from creating the fraction by writing separate digits "5" and "8" with a slash, as it appears as a single glyph with the numerator positioned slightly above and the denominator slightly below a horizontal separator. Its primary purpose is to enhance readability and aesthetic consistency in contexts such as recipes, measurements, musical time signatures, and other technical documents where fractional notation must be used.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+215D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Fraction Five Eighths |
| Block | Number Forms |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Fraction |
| Decomposition Mapping | "5" U+0035 Digit Five "⁄" U+2044 Fraction Slash "8" U+0038 Digit Eight |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⅝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⅝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x85 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x215D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000215D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u215d |