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Vulgar Fraction One Half vs Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths

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Vulgar Fraction One Half
00BD
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Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
215C
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Property Comparison

Property ½ 00BD ⅜ 215C
Name Vulgar Fraction One Half Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths
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 215C
Unicode U+00BD U+215C
HTML Decimal ½ ⅜
HTML Hex ½ ⅜
CSS \00BD \215C
JavaScript \u{BD} \u{215C}
Python \u00bd \u215c
UTF-8 c2 bd e2 85 9c

How to Distinguish

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

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