U+215B Vulgar Fraction One Eighth
U+215B 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 1/8.
The glyph is a fraction composition of the glyphs Digit One, Fraction Slash, Digit Eight. 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+215B 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:
1/8 or 1⁄8 may refer to:
- January 8 (month-day date notation)
- 1 August (day-month date notation)
- the Fraction one eighth, 0.125 in decimal, and 12.5% in percentage
- 1st Battalion, 8th Marines
- 1s. 8d. i.e. 1 shilling and 8 (old) pence in UK pre-decimal currency = 20d. or 1⁄12 of a Pound sterling
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8539 |
| UTF-8 | E2 85 9B |
| UTF-16 | 21 5B |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 5B |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%85%9B |
| HTML hex reference | ⅛ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â…› |
| HTML named entity | ⅛ |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A8 FB |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A8 FB |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 C4 31 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 43 28 7B 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 28 7B 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DC FB |
| LATEX | \textfrac{1}{8} |
| AGL: Latin-4 | oneeighth |
| AGL: Latin-5 | oneeighth |
| Adobe Glyph List | oneeighth |
| digraph | 18 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| VULGAR FRACTION ONE EIGHTH | |
| FRACTION ONE EIGHTH | |
| Number Forms | |
| Other Number | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| fraction | |
| Digit One Fraction Slash Digit Eight | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Eighth | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Eighth | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Eighth | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Eighth | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Eighth | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Eighth | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Eighth | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Eighth | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Digit One Fraction Slash Digit Eight | |
| No | |
| Digit One Fraction Slash Digit Eight | |
| No | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Eighth | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| numeric | |
| 1/8 | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Eighth | |
| U |