Vulgar Fraction One Fifth Fraction One Fifth

U+2155

About Vulgar Fraction One Fifth Fraction One Fifth

Vulgar Fraction One Fifth Fraction One Fifth is the Unicode character ⅕ at codepoint U+2155 in the Number Forms block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Developer Notes

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Vulgar Fraction One Fifth Fraction One Fifth

To use the Vulgar Fraction One Fifth Fraction One Fifth symbol (⅕) in HTML, insert the entity ⅕ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⅕ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2155';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2155' evaluates to ⅕. In Python source, write '\u2155'.

The character encodes to E2 85 95 as UTF-8 bytes and 2155 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8533.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

Similar Symbols