Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths

Group: Numerals

Keywords

numerals

About this character

Vulgar Fraction Three Eighths belongs to the Numerals group and is encoded at U+215C. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+215C
Hex: 215C
Decimal: 8540
HTML: ⅜
CSS: \215C
JavaScript: \u215C
Python: \u215C
UTF-8: E2 85 9C

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Vulgar Fraction One Seventh U+2150 Similar
Vulgar Fraction One Ninth U+2151 Similar
Vulgar Fraction One Tenth U+2152 Similar
Vulgar Fraction One Third U+2153 Similar
Vulgar Fraction Two Thirds U+2154 Similar
Vulgar Fraction One Fifth U+2155 Similar
Vulgar Fraction Two Fifths U+2156 Similar
Vulgar Fraction Three Fifths U+2157 Similar
Vulgar Fraction Four Fifths U+2158 Similar
Vulgar Fraction One Sixth U+2159 Similar
Vulgar Fraction Five Sixths U+215A Similar
Vulgar Fraction One Eighth U+215B Similar
Vulgar Fraction Five Eighths U+215D Similar
Vulgar Fraction Seven Eighths U+215E Similar
Fraction Numerator One U+215F Similar
Roman Numeral One U+2160 Similar
Roman Numeral Two U+2161 Similar
Roman Numeral Three U+2162 Similar
Roman Numeral Four U+2163 Similar
Roman Numeral Five U+2164 Similar
Roman Numeral Six U+2165 Similar
Roman Numeral Seven U+2166 Similar
Roman Numeral Eight U+2167 Similar
Roman Numeral Nine U+2168 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.