U+00BD Vulgar Fraction One Half
U+00BD was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement 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 1/2.
The glyph is a fraction composition of the glyphs Digit One, Fraction Slash, Digit Two. 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+00BD 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:
One half (pl. halves) is the irreducible fraction resulting from dividing one (1) by two (2), or the fraction resulting from dividing any number by its double.
It often appears in mathematical equations, recipes, measurements, etc.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 189 |
| UTF-8 | C2 BD |
| UTF-16 | 00 BD |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 BD |
| URL-Quoted | %C2%BD |
| HTML hex reference | ½ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ½ |
| HTML named entity | ½ |
| HTML named entity | ½ |
| HTML named entity | ½ |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A8 F6 |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-3 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | BD |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | BD |
| LATEX | \textonehalf |
| AGL: Latin-1 | onehalf |
| AGL: Latin-2 | onehalf |
| AGL: Latin-3 | onehalf |
| AGL: Latin-4 | onehalf |
| AGL: Latin-5 | onehalf |
| Adobe Glyph List | onehalf |
| digraph | 12 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF | |
| FRACTION ONE HALF | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Other Number | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| fraction | |
| Digit One Fraction Slash Digit Two | |
| ✘ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Half | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Half | |
| ✘ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Half | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Half | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Half | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Half | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Half | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Half | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Digit One Fraction Slash Digit Two | |
| No | |
| Digit One Fraction Slash Digit Two | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Half | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| numeric | |
| 1/2 | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Half | |
| U |