Vulgar Fraction One Half ½

U+00BD

Symbol Meaning

Simple fraction “one half”. Written with one character instead of a sequence of three: “1/2”. It can be convenient when writing formulas.

Shows half of something. It is 0.5, zero five.

A simple fraction is a fraction whose numerator is less than the denominator.

The symbol “Vulgar Fraction One Half” is included in the “Vulgar fractions” subblock of the “Latin-1 Supplement” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

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Unicode Name	Vulgar Fraction One Half
Unicode Number
Entity	½
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Latin-1 Supplement
Unicode Subblock	Vulgar fractions
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Alt Code	Alt 171(English Keyboard Layout)

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	00BD
Simple case change	00BD
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	C2 BD	194 189	49853	11000010 10111101
UTF-16BE	00 BD	0 189	189	00000000 10111101
UTF-16LE	BD 00	189 0	48384	10111101 00000000
UTF-32BE	00 00 00 BD	0 0 0 189	189	00000000 00000000 00000000 10111101
UTF-32LE	BD 00 00 00	189 0 0 0	3170893824	10111101 00000000 00000000 00000000