Vulgar Fraction One Half
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0189 on the numeric keypad to insert vulgar fraction one half.
- Alt code
- Alt+0189
- HTML entity
- ½
- Unicode
- U+00BD
About this symbol
Unicode calls ½ a “vulgar fraction”, from the Latin vulgaris, meaning common: a fraction written with whole numbers above and below a line. One half, one quarter and three quarters were the only fractions in the Latin-1 character set, which is why they have short Windows Alt codes.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
- Type
- Number
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Vulgar fractions
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Windows Extended Codes: 0128 to 0255 chart for related characters.