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Glyph for U+2044
Source: Noto Sans

U+2044 Fraction Slash

U+2044 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as solidus (in typography).

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as number separator according to the number it separates. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+2044 prohibits a line break after it, and before it, too, if preceded by a number. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The CLDR project calls this character “fraction slash” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: fraction, slash, stroke, virgule.

This character is distinct from U+2215 DIVISION SLASH. It is intended to represent an actual fraction, not the operation of dividing. In some fonts combining it with numbers leads to a ligature display like “½”. For a discussion see this detailed answer on SuperUser.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark /. It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names. Once used to mark periods and commas, the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, exclusive 'or' and inclusive 'or', and as a date separator.

A slash in the reverse direction is known as a backslash.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 8260
UTF-8 E2 81 84
UTF-16 20 44
UTF-32 00 00 20 44
URL-Quoted %E2%81%84
HTML hex reference ⁄
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ⁄
HTML named entity ⁄
alias solidus (in typography)
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 36 A8 38
Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) DA
Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) DA
AGL: Latin-1 fraction
AGL: Latin-2 fraction
AGL: Latin-3 fraction
AGL: Latin-4 fraction
AGL: Latin-5 fraction
Adobe Glyph List fraction
digraph /f

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) FRACTION SLASH
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) General Punctuation
General Category (gc) Math Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Common Separator
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✔
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) MidNum
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Infix Numeric Separator
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R