U+215C Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
U+215C 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 3/8.
The glyph is a fraction composition of the glyphs Digit Three, 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+215C 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:
3/8 or 3⁄8 may refer to:
- 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines
- the calendar date March 8 (United States)
- the calendar date August 3 (Gregorian calendar)
- the fraction, three eighths or 0.375 in decimal
- a time signature
- 3/8 (album), a 2007 album by Kay Tse
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8540 |
| UTF-8 | E2 85 9C |
| UTF-16 | 21 5C |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 5C |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%85%9C |
| HTML hex reference | ⅜ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⅜ |
| HTML named entity | ⅜ |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A8 FC |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A8 FC |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 C4 32 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 43 28 7C 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 28 7C 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DC FC |
| LATEX | \textfrac{3}{8} |
| AGL: Latin-4 | threeeighths |
| AGL: Latin-5 | threeeighths |
| Adobe Glyph List | threeeighths |
| digraph | 38 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| VULGAR FRACTION THREE EIGHTHS | |
| FRACTION THREE EIGHTHS | |
| Number Forms | |
| Other Number | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| fraction | |
| Digit Three Fraction Slash Digit Eight | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Digit Three Fraction Slash Digit Eight | |
| No | |
| Digit Three Fraction Slash Digit Eight | |
| No | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| numeric | |
| 3/8 | |
| Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths | |
| U |