Fractions · NumbersU+00BD · Latin-1 Supplement
½
One Half
U+00BD · decimal 189 · Latin-1 Supplement
Every way to write it
7 formsHTML entity
½
A named entity — readable, and safe in any HTML document without declaring a charset.
HTML numeric
½
The numeric form works everywhere a named one does, and exists for every character.
CSS content
\00BD
For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.
JavaScript
\u00BD
Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.
Python
\u00BD
The escape for a Python string literal.
URL
%C2%BD
Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.
UTF-8 bytes
C2 BD
2 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.
Typing it without copying
system pickermacOS
Control + Command + Space, then search one half
Windows
Character Map or Alt + 189
Groups it belongs to
Characters near it
8Code pointU+00BD
EntityNamed
UTF-82 bytes
ASCIINo