U+2159 Vulgar Fraction One Sixth
U+2159 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Number Forms 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 1/6.
The glyph is a fraction composition of the glyphs Digit One, Fraction Slash, Digit Six. 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+2159 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:
Sixth is the ordinal form of the number six.
- The Sixth Amendment, to the U.S. Constitution
- A keg of beer, equal to 5 U.S. gallons or 1⁄6 barrel
- The fraction 1⁄6
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8537 |
| UTF-8 | E2 85 99 |
| UTF-16 | 21 59 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 59 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%85%99 |
| HTML hex reference | ⅙ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â…™ |
| HTML named entity | ⅙ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 C3 39 |
| LATEX | \textfrac{1}{6} |
| digraph | 16 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| VULGAR FRACTION ONE SIXTH | |
| FRACTION ONE SIXTH | |
| Number Forms | |
| Other Number | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| fraction | |
| Digit One Fraction Slash Digit Six | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Sixth | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Sixth | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Sixth | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Sixth | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Sixth | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Sixth | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Sixth | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Sixth | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Digit One Fraction Slash Digit Six | |
| No | |
| Digit One Fraction Slash Digit Six | |
| No | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Sixth | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| numeric | |
| 1/6 | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Sixth | |
| U |