One half fraction

U+00BD

A single character for one half, so it stays neat in recipes and measurements. Related characters include ¼ and ¾.

Official name
VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
Unicode block
Latin-1 Supplement
Added in
Unicode 1.1
HTML
HTML hex
CSS content
JavaScript
UTF-8 bytes
C2 BD
Keywords
mathematics, equation, science
Keyboard
Windows: hold Alt, type 0189 on the number pad
Categories
Maths

The Unicode standard defines this character, but your device’s fonts decide how it looks, so it may differ on other screens.

Data: Unicode 16.0, Emoji 16.0.