U+00BC Vulgar Fraction One Quarter
U+00BC 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 Other Number and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The codepoint has the numeric value 1/4.
The glyph is a fraction composition of the glyphs Digit One, Fraction Slash, Digit Four. 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+00BC 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 Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
1/4 or 1⁄4 or ¼ may refer to:
- The calendar date January 4, in month-day format
- The calendar date 1 April in day-month format
- 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, an infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps
- A fraction of one fourth, one quarter, 25% or 0.25
- 1/4 (single album), a single album by South Korean band Onewe
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 188 |
| UTF-8 | C2 BC |
| UTF-16 | 00 BC |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 BC |
| URL-Quoted | %C2%BC |
| HTML hex reference | ¼ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ¼ |
| HTML named entity | ¼ |
| HTML named entity | ¼ |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: CP860 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: CP861 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | 95 |
| Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A8 F9 |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A9 B3 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A9 B3 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A8 F9 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 86 34 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 43 28 79 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 29 33 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 29 33 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 28 79 0F |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DC F9 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 85 52 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 85 52 |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | B7 |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | B7 |
| LATEX | \textonequarter |
| AGL: Latin-1 | onequarter |
| AGL: Latin-2 | onequarter |
| AGL: Latin-3 | onequarter |
| AGL: Latin-4 | onequarter |
| AGL: Latin-5 | onequarter |
| Adobe Glyph List | onequarter |
| digraph | 14 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER | |
| FRACTION ONE QUARTER | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Other Number | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| fraction | |
| Digit One Fraction Slash Digit Four | |
| ✘ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Quarter | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Quarter | |
| ✘ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Quarter | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Quarter | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Quarter | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Quarter | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Quarter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Quarter | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Digit One Fraction Slash Digit Four | |
| No | |
| Digit One Fraction Slash Digit Four | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Quarter | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| numeric | |
| 1/4 | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Quarter | |
| U |