U+00BD "½" Vulgar Fraction One Half Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+00BD "½" Vulgar Fraction One Half is a single typographic glyph representing the common fraction one half, allowing it to be displayed as a compact symbol rather than the separate characters "1", "/", and "2". It belongs to the C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement block, which includes punctuation, letters, and other symbols for Western European languages. This character is widely used in recipes, measurements, mathematical contexts, and informal texts to denote half of a unit or quantity. Its standardized encoding ensures consistent rendering across different software, operating systems, and platforms.
General Properties
Code Point
U+00BD
Name
Vulgar Fraction One Half
Unicode 1.0 Name
Fraction One Half
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
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
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
1/2
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Common