Unicode Character 'DIVISION SIGN' (U+00F7) |
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| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | DIVISION SIGN |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Category | Symbol, Math [Sm] |
| Combine | 0 |
| BIDI | Other Neutrals [ON] |
| Mirror | N |
| Index entries | DIVISION SIGN obelus |
| Comments | obelus occasionally used as an alternate, more visually distinct shape for a hyphen in some contexts historically used as a punctuation mark to denote questionable passages in manuscripts |
| See Also | syriac harklean obelus U+070B commercial minus sign U+2052 division slash U+2215 divides U+2223 ratio U+2236 heavy division sign U+2797 long division U+27CC dotted obelos U+2E13 |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| HTML Entity (decimal) | ÷ |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ÷ |
| HTML Entity (named) | ÷ |
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +00F7 Alt 0247 Alt 246 |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC3 0xB7 (c3b7) |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11000011:10110111 |
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x00F7 (00f7) |
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 247 |
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x000000F7 (00F7) |
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 247 |
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u00F7" |
| Python source code | u"\u00F7" |
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| Java Data | |
|---|---|
| string.toUpperCase() | ÷ |
| string.toLowerCase() | ÷ |
| Character.UnicodeBlock | LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT |
| Character.charCount() | 1 |
| Character.getDirectionality() | DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13] |
| Character.getNumericValue() | -1 |
| Character.getType() | 25 |
| Character.isDefined() | Yes |
| Character.isDigit() | No |
| Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() | No |
| Character.isISOControl() | No |
| Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() | No |
| Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() | No |
| Character.isLetter() | No |
| Character.isLetterOrDigit() | No |
| Character.isLowerCase() | No |
| Character.isMirrored() | No |
| Character.isSpaceChar() | No |
| Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() | No |
| Character.isTitleCase() | No |
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() | No |
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() | No |
| Character.isUpperCase() | No |
| Character.isValidCodePoint() | Yes |
| Character.isWhitespace() | No |