Unicode Character "¼" (U+00BC)

The character ¼ (Vulgar Fraction One Quarter) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00BC. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ¼.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Vulgar Fraction One Quarter
Unicode Codepoint U+00BC
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Number
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+00BC Conversion

HTML (decimal) ¼
HTML (hex) ¼
HTML (named) ¼
URL Escape Code %C2%BC
CSS \0000BC
JavaScript, JSON \u00BC
C, C++, Java \u00BC
Python \u00BC
Rust \u{00BC}
Ruby \u00BC

How to type "¼"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 B C. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 B C. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ¼
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ¼
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ¼
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xBC
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00BC
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000BC

References