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Glyph for U+215C
Source: Noto Sans

U+215C Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths

U+215C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2150 to U+218F Number Forms in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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 3/8.

The glyph is a fraction composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0033 Digit Three, Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash, Glyph for U+0038 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. The word that U+215C forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

3/8 or ⅜ may refer to:

  • 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines
  • the calendar date March 8 (United States)
  • the calendar date August 3 (Gregorian calendar)
  • the fraction, three eighths or 0.375 in decimal
  • a time signature
  • 3/8 (album), a 2007 album by Kay Tse

Representations

System Representation
Nº 8540
UTF-8 E2 85 9C
UTF-16 21 5C
UTF-32 00 00 21 5C
URL-Quoted %E2%85%9C
HTML hex reference ⅜
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ⅜
HTML named entity ⅜
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A8 FC
LATEX \textfrac{3}{8}
AGL: Latin-4 threeeighths
AGL: Latin-5 threeeighths
Adobe Glyph List threeeighths
digraph 38

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) VULGAR FRACTION THREE EIGHTHS
Unicode 1 Name (na1) FRACTION THREE EIGHTHS
Block (blk) Number Forms
General Category (gc) Other Number
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) fraction
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0033 Digit Three Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash Glyph for U+0038 Digit Eight
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+215C Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+215C Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+215C Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+215C Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+215C Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+215C Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+215C Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
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+215C Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
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) ✘
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+0033 Digit Three Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash Glyph for U+0038 Digit Eight
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0033 Digit Three Glyph for U+2044 Fraction Slash Glyph for U+0038 Digit Eight
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
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) Other
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+215C Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) numeric
Numeric Value (nv) 3/8
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+215C Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U