Vulgar Fraction Two Fifths Fraction Two Fifths

U+2156

About Vulgar Fraction Two Fifths Fraction Two Fifths

Vulgar Fraction Two Fifths Fraction Two Fifths is the Unicode character ⅖ at codepoint U+2156 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 Two Fifths Fraction Two Fifths

To use the Vulgar Fraction Two Fifths Fraction Two Fifths symbol (⅖) in HTML, insert the entity ⅖ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⅖ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2156';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2156' evaluates to ⅖. In Python source, write '\u2156'.

The character encodes to E2 85 96 as UTF-8 bytes and 2156 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8534.

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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