U+215D Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths
U+215D 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 5/8.
The glyph is a fraction composition of the glyphs Digit Five, 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+215D 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:
5/8 may refer to:
- the calendar date August 5 of the Gregorian calendar
- the calendar date May 8 (USA)
- The Fraction five eighths or 0.625 in decimal
- A time signature of quintuple meter in music
- Five-eighth, a position in rugby league football
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8541 |
| UTF-8 | E2 85 9D |
| UTF-16 | 21 5D |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 5D |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%85%9D |
| HTML hex reference | ⅝ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â… |
| HTML named entity | ⅝ |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A8 FD |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A8 FD |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 C4 33 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 43 28 7D 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 28 7D 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DC FD |
| LATEX | \textfrac{5}{8} |
| AGL: Latin-4 | fiveeighths |
| AGL: Latin-5 | fiveeighths |
| Adobe Glyph List | fiveeighths |
| digraph | 58 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| VULGAR FRACTION FIVE EIGHTHS | |
| FRACTION FIVE EIGHTHS | |
| Number Forms | |
| Other Number | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| fraction | |
| Digit Five Fraction Slash Digit Eight | |
| ✘ | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths | |
| ✘ | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Digit Five Fraction Slash Digit Eight | |
| No | |
| Digit Five Fraction Slash Digit Eight | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| numeric | |
| 5/8 | |
| Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths | |
| U |