U+2155 "⅕" Vulgar Fraction One Fifth Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

⅕
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+2155 "⅕" Vulgar Fraction One Fifth is a precomposed typographic symbol representing the fraction one fifth, used primarily to display the fraction cleanly in digital text without requiring inline formatting or separate numeral and slash characters. This character is part of the Number Forms block in Unicode, designed to provide standard visual representations for common fractions in documents, tables, and user interfaces. Its inclusion ensures consistent rendering across platforms and fonts, making it useful for recipes, measurements, or mathematical contexts where space and readability are important. The vulgar fraction character encodes the concept of a single part of a five part whole, with ratios preserved as a single code point rather than as separate digits.

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Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
⅕
HTML Hex Encoding
⅕
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x85 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2155
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002155
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2155