Fraction Slash
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Fraction Slash has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⁄
- Unicode
- U+2044
About this symbol
The fraction slash builds fractions that are not in the font as single characters: in software that supports it, 3⁄8 is drawn as a proper small fraction. It leans further than the ordinary slash /, which is meant for dates and paths.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- FRACTION SLASH
- Also called
- Solidus (in typography)
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- For composing arbitrary fractions
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