Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths vs Vulgar Fraction One Half

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Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths

215D

Vulgar Fraction One Half

00BD

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.

Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use charCodeAt() in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.

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