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Vulgar Fraction One Half vs Vulgar Fraction One Sixth

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Vulgar Fraction One Half
00BD
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Vulgar Fraction One Sixth
2159
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Property Comparison

Property ½ 00BD ⅙ 2159
Name Vulgar Fraction One Half Vulgar Fraction One Sixth
Category Fractions Fractions
Block Latin-1 Supplement Number Forms
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Other Number (No) Other Number (No)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 00BD 2159
Unicode U+00BD U+2159
HTML Decimal ½ ⅙
HTML Hex ½ ⅙
CSS \00BD \2159
JavaScript \u{BD} \u{2159}
Python \u00bd \u2159
UTF-8 c2 bd e2 85 99

How to Distinguish

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

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