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
minus sign U+2212
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