U+2044 Fraction Slash
U+2044 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
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 |
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Nº | 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 | â„ |
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 |
Related Characters
Vulgar Fraction One QuarterGlyph for U+00BC Vulgar Fraction One HalfGlyph for U+00BD Vulgar Fraction Three QuartersGlyph for U+00BE Vulgar Fraction One SeventhGlyph for U+2150 Vulgar Fraction One NinthGlyph for U+2151 Vulgar Fraction One TenthGlyph for U+2152 Vulgar Fraction One ThirdGlyph for U+2153 Vulgar Fraction Two ThirdsGlyph for U+2154 Vulgar Fraction One FifthGlyph for U+2155 Vulgar Fraction Two FifthsGlyph for U+2156 Vulgar Fraction Three FifthsGlyph for U+2157 Vulgar Fraction Four FifthsGlyph for U+2158 Vulgar Fraction One SixthGlyph for U+2159 Vulgar Fraction Five SixthsGlyph for U+215A Vulgar Fraction One EighthGlyph for U+215B Vulgar Fraction Three EighthsGlyph for U+215C Vulgar Fraction Five EighthsGlyph for U+215D Vulgar Fraction Seven EighthsGlyph for U+215E Fraction Numerator OneGlyph for U+215F Vulgar Fraction Zero ThirdsGlyph for U+2189
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
FRACTION SLASH | |
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General Punctuation | |
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Common | |
Common Separator | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
MidNum | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Infix Numeric Separator | |
None | |
not a number | |
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R |