U+00F7 Division Sign
U+00F7 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as obelus.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+00F7 forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “division sign” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: divide, division, obelus.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The division sign (÷) is a mathematical symbol consisting of a short horizontal line with a dot above and another dot below, used in Anglophone countries to indicate the operation of division. This usage, though widespread in some countries, is not universal and the symbol has a different meaning in other countries. Its use to denote division is not recommended in the ISO 80000-2 standard for mathematical notation.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 247 |
| UTF-8 | C3 B7 |
| UTF-16 | 00 F7 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 F7 |
| URL-Quoted | %C3%B7 |
| HTML hex reference | ÷ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ÷ |
| HTML named entity | ÷ |
| HTML named entity | ÷ |
| HTML named entity | ÷ |
| alias | obelus |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A1 C0 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) | F7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) | F7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-2 (hex bytes) | F7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-3 (hex bytes) | F7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-4 (hex bytes) | F7 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) | BA |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A1 E0 |
| Encoding: KOI8-R (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: KOI8-U (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | D6 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | F7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | F7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | F7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | BA |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | F7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | F7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | F7 |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | D6 |
| LATEX | \div |
| AGL: Latin-1 | divide |
| AGL: Latin-2 | divide |
| AGL: Latin-3 | divide |
| AGL: Latin-4 | divide |
| AGL: Latin-5 | divide |
| Adobe Glyph List | divide |
| digraph | -: |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| DIVISION SIGN | |
| — | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Math Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Division Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Division Sign | |
| Division Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Division Sign | |
| Division Sign | |
| Division Sign | |
| Division Sign | |
| Division Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Division Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Division Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Division Sign | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Division Sign | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Division Sign | |
| U |