U+215E "⅞" Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⅞
U+215E "⅞" Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths is a single typographic glyph used to represent the fraction seven eighths in a compact, precomposed form, typically employed in contexts such as recipes, measurements, and mathematical notation for clarity and space efficiency. This character belongs to the Number Forms block of Unicode, which encodes common fractions to simplify typesetting and ensure consistent display across different fonts and platforms. Unlike manually constructing fractions using separate digits and a slash, the precomposed glyph like ⅞ maintains proper alignment and proportion, making it ideal for use in documents, web pages, and user interfaces where readability and visual consistency are important.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+215E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Fraction Seven Eighths |
| Block | Number Forms |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Fraction |
| Decomposition Mapping | "7" U+0037 Digit Seven "⁄" U+2044 Fraction Slash "8" U+0038 Digit Eight |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⅞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⅞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x85 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x215E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000215E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u215e |