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Fraction Slash HTML entity ⁄
⁄ is the HTML entity for Fraction Slash ⁄ (U+2044). Copy the decimal ⁄ and hex ⁄ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
⁄- Code point
- U+2044
- Unicode name
- FRACTION SLASH
- Block
- General Punctuation
- Category
- Math symbol (Sm)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ⁄Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ⁄Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ⁄Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\2044";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2044"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2044"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{FRACTION SLASH}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%81%84Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 81 843 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 20441 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
The fraction slash tells fonts that the digits around it form a fraction; some fonts then draw 1⁄2 as a proper fraction. It differs from the ordinary slash, which is also used for dates and paths.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).