U+29F8 Big Solidus
U+29F8 was added to Unicode in version 3.2 (2002). It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is mirrored. Its corresponding mirrored glyph is Big Reverse Solidus. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+29F8 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The slash is an oblique slanting line punctuation mark /. Once used to mark periods and commas, the slash is now used to represent exclusive or inclusive or, division and fractions, and as a date separator. It is called a solidus in Unicode, is also known as an oblique stroke, and has several other historical or technical names including oblique and virgule.
A slash in the reverse direction is known as a backslash.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 10744 |
| UTF-8 | E2 A7 B8 |
| UTF-16 | 29 F8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 29 F8 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%A7%B8 |
| HTML hex reference | ⧸ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⧸ |
Related Characters
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 3.2 (2002) | |
| BIG SOLIDUS | |
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| Miscellaneous Symbols | |
| Math Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Big Solidus | |
| ✘ | |
| Big Solidus | |
| Big Solidus | |
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| Big Solidus | |
| Big Solidus | |
| Big Solidus | |
| Big Solidus | |
| Big Solidus | |
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| Big Solidus | |
| Any | |
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| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
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| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Big Solidus | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
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| Other | |
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| Other | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Big Reverse Solidus | |
| Big Solidus | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Big Solidus | |
| R |