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Glyph for U+2044
Source: Noto Sans

U+2044 Fraction Slash

U+2044 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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 solidus (in typography).

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Common Separator and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2044 behaves as Infix Numeric Separator regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and MidNum for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “fraction slash” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: stroke, virgule.

This character is distinct from U+2215 DIVISION SLASH. It is intended to represent an actual fraction, not the operation of dividing. In some fonts combining it with numbers leads to a ligature display like “½”. For a discussion see this detailed answer on SuperUser.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The slash is the oblique slanting line punctuation mark /. Also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash or several other historical or technical names including oblique and virgule. Once used to mark periods and commas, the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, exclusive 'or' and inclusive 'or', and as a date separator.

A slash in the reverse direction is known as a backslash.

Representations

System Representation
8260
UTF-8 E2 81 84
UTF-16 20 44
UTF-32 00 00 20 44
URL-Quoted %E2%81%84
HTML hex reference ⁄
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ⁄
HTML named entity ⁄
alias solidus (in typography)
Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) DA
AGL: Latin-1 fraction
AGL: Latin-2 fraction
AGL: Latin-3 fraction
AGL: Latin-4 fraction
AGL: Latin-5 fraction
Adobe Glyph List fraction
digraph /f

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name FRACTION SLASH
Unicode 1 Name
Block General Punctuation
General Category Math Symbol
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Common Separator
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Case Folding Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break MidNum
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Infix Numeric Separator
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R