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Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths vs Vulgar Fraction One Half

Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths
215D
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Vulgar Fraction One Half
00BD
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Property Comparison

Property ⅝ 215D ½ 00BD
Name Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths Vulgar Fraction One Half
Category Fractions Fractions
Block Number Forms Latin-1 Supplement
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Other Number (No) Other Number (No)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 215D 00BD
Unicode U+215D U+00BD
HTML Decimal ⅝ ½
HTML Hex ⅝ ½
CSS \215D \00BD
JavaScript \u{215D} \u{BD}
Python \u215d \u00bd
UTF-8 e2 85 9d c2 bd

How to Distinguish

Both Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths and Vulgar Fraction One Half are in the Fractions category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.

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