¼
Technical information
Symbol | ¼ | |
Name | Vulgar fraction one quarter | |
Unicode number | U+00BC | |
Category | Latin-1 Supplement3. Vulgar fractions |
Description | The Unicode character ¼, or U+00BC, is known as the "Vulgar Fraction One Quarter". It is part of the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Number, Other" category. Visually, it combines the numbers "1" and "4" with a slash between them, which represents the mathematical operation of division. The Vulgar Fraction One Quarter is commonly used in writing and publishing to denote the fraction 1/4. It is especially useful in contexts such as recipes, measurements, or any other situation where fractions are required. The specific usage of the Vulgar Fraction One Quarter can depend on the particular conventions of a discipline, but it generally serves as a convenient symbol for expressing the fraction one quarter in any form of text. |
Encoding
HTML Entity | ¼ | |
HTML Entity (hex) | ¼ | |
HTML Entity (named) | ¼ | |
URL Escape Code | %C2%BC | |
UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC2 0xBC | |
UTF-8 (binary) | 1100001010111100 | |
UTF-16 | 0x00BC | |
UTF-32 | 0x000000BC |
Source Code
C, C++, and Java | "\u00BC" | |
CSS Code | \00BC | |
JavaScript | "\u00BC" | |
Perl | \x{00BC} | |
Python 2 | u"\u00BC" | |
Python 3 | \u00BC | |
Ruby | \u{00BC} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ¼ in sentence and in bold like this ¼ and in italic like this ¼.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>¼</span>
span {
content: "\00BC";
}
The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana