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U+215E Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths

U+215E 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 7/8.

The glyph is a fraction composition of the glyphs Digit Seven, Fraction Slash, 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. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+215E 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:

7/8 may refer to:

July 8 (month-day date notation)

7 August (day-month date notation)

the Fraction seven eighths or 0.875 in decimal

the ⁷
₈ time signature; see Septuple meter

7/8 TV (Bulgarian TV channel)

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	8542
UTF-8	E2 85 9E
UTF-16	21 5E
UTF-32	00 00 21 5E
URL-Quoted	%E2%85%9E
HTML hex reference	⅞
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	â…ž
HTML named entity	&frac78;
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)	A8 FE
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)	A8 FE
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 36 C4 34
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)	1B 24 28 43 28 7E 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)	1B 24 29 43 0E 28 7E 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)	DC FE
L^AT_EX	\textfrac{7}{8}
AGL: Latin-4	seveneighths
AGL: Latin-5	seveneighths
Adobe Glyph List	seveneighths
digraph	78

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	VULGAR FRACTION SEVEN EIGHTHS
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	FRACTION SEVEN 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)	Digit Seven Fraction Slash Digit Eight
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths
Case Folding (cf)	Vulgar Fraction Seven 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)	Vulgar Fraction Seven 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)	✘
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)	Digit Seven Fraction Slash Digit Eight
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Digit Seven Fraction Slash 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)	Vulgar Fraction Seven 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)	Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
Numeric Type (nt)	numeric
Numeric Value (nv)	7/8
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	U