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Glyph for U+2155
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U+2155 Vulgar Fraction One Fifth

U+2155 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2150 to U+218F Number Forms in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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 1/5.

The glyph is a fraction composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0031 Digit One, Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash, Glyph for U+0035 Digit Five. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+2155 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:

1/5 may refer to:

  • January 5, the date
  • 1 May, the date
  • quintile, a 5-quantile in statistics
  • one fifth, the reciprocal of the number 5, = 0.2
  • one and five, 1 shilling and 5 pence in pre-decimal British Coinage
  • 1st Battalion 5th Marines
  • one to five betting odds

Representations

System Representation
8533
UTF-8 E2 85 95
UTF-16 21 55
UTF-32 00 00 21 55
URL-Quoted %E2%85%95
HTML hex reference ⅕
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake â…•
HTML named entity ⅕
LATEX \textfrac{1}{5}
digraph 15

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) VULGAR FRACTION ONE FIFTH
Unicode 1 Name (na1) FRACTION ONE FIFTH
Block (blk) Number Forms
General Category (gc) Other Number
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) fraction
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0031 Digit One Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash Glyph for U+0035 Digit Five
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+2155 Vulgar Fraction One Fifth
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+2155 Vulgar Fraction One Fifth
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+2155 Vulgar Fraction One Fifth
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+2155 Vulgar Fraction One Fifth
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+2155 Vulgar Fraction One Fifth
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+2155 Vulgar Fraction One Fifth
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+2155 Vulgar Fraction One Fifth
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+2155 Vulgar Fraction One Fifth
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+0031 Digit One Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash Glyph for U+0035 Digit Five
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0031 Digit One Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash Glyph for U+0035 Digit Five
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+2155 Vulgar Fraction One Fifth
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
Numeric Type (nt) numeric
Numeric Value (nv) 1/5
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+2155 Vulgar Fraction One Fifth
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U