U+215A Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths
U+215A 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 5/6.
The glyph is a fraction composition of the glyphs Digit Five, 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+215A 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:
5/6 may refer to:
- May 6 (month-day date notation)
- June 5 (day-month date notation)
- The Qatar diplomatic crisis, which began on 5 June 2017
- 5 shillings and 6 pence in UK predecimal currency
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8538 |
| UTF-8 | E2 85 9A |
| UTF-16 | 21 5A |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 5A |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%85%9A |
| HTML hex reference | ⅚ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â…š |
| HTML named entity | ⅚ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 C4 30 |
| LATEX | \textfrac{5}{6} |
| digraph | 56 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| VULGAR FRACTION FIVE SIXTHS | |
| FRACTION FIVE SIXTHS | |
| Number Forms | |
| Other Number | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| fraction | |
| Digit Five Fraction Slash Digit Six | |
| ✘ | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths | |
| ✘ | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Digit Five Fraction Slash Digit Six | |
| No | |
| Digit Five Fraction Slash Digit Six | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| numeric | |
| 5/6 | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths | |
| U |