Vulgar Fraction One Quarter Fraction One Quarter

U+00BC

About Vulgar Fraction One Quarter Fraction One Quarter

Vulgar Fraction One Quarter Fraction One Quarter is the Unicode character ¼ at codepoint U+00BC in the Latin-1 Supplement block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

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

How to Use Vulgar Fraction One Quarter Fraction One Quarter

To use the Vulgar Fraction One Quarter Fraction One Quarter symbol (¼) in HTML, insert the entity ¼ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ¼ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\BC';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u00BC' evaluates to ¼. In Python source, write '\u00BC'.

The character encodes to C2 BC as UTF-8 bytes and 00BC as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 188.

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.

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