Unicode Character 'VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF' (U+00BD)

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VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF

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VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF

Unicode Data
Name VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Category Number, Other [No]
Script Common (Zyyy)
Combine 0
BIDI Other Neutrals [ON]
Decomposition DIGIT ONE (U+0031)
FRACTION SLASH (U+2044)
DIGIT TWO (U+0032)
Old name FRACTION ONE HALF
Index entries FRACTION ONE HALF, VULGAR
HALF, VULGAR FRACTION ONE
ONE HALF, VULGAR FRACTION
VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
Approximations <fraction> 0031 2044 0032
Version Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) &#189;
HTML Entity (hex) &#xbd;
HTML Entity (named) &frac12;: ½
&half;: ½
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +BD
Alt 0189
Alt 171
UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xBD (c2bd)
UTF-8 (binary) 11000010:10111101
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00BD (00bd)
UTF-16 (decimal) 189
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000BD (bd)
UTF-32 (decimal) 189
C/C++/Java source code "\u00BD"
Python source code u"\u00BD"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase() ½
string.toLowerCase() ½
Character.UnicodeBlock LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13]
Character.getNumericValue() -2
Character.getType() 11
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