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Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths HTML entity ⅝
⅝ is the HTML entity for Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths ⅝ (U+215D). Copy ⅝, ⅝ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
⅝- Code point
- U+215D
- Unicode name
- VULGAR FRACTION FIVE EIGHTHS
- Block
- Number Forms
- Category
- Other number (No)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ⅝Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ⅝Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ⅝Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\215D";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u215D"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u215d"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{VULGAR FRACTION FIVE EIGHTHS}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%85%9DPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 85 9D3 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 215D1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
⅝ writes U+215D (Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths), a number form from the Unicode Number Forms block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. These characters exist mostly for compatibility with older character sets; for anything beyond simple cases, <sup>, <sub> or MathML give more control.
The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.
More letterlike symbols, numbers and fractions
⅛Vulgar Fraction One Eighth⅚Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths⅙Vulgar Fraction One Sixth⅘Vulgar Fraction Four Fifths⅗Vulgar Fraction Three Fifths⅖Vulgar Fraction Two Fifths⅕Vulgar Fraction One Fifth⅔Vulgar Fraction Two Thirds
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).