These entities allow fractions (e.g. ½) to be represented with typographically smaller numerators and denominators . Few fonts support thirds, fifths, sixths and eights, that is why this site uses Lucida Sans Unicode, which supports them.
| Character Name | Character | Entity | Num Entity |
Hex Entity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vulgar fraction 1/4 | ¼ | ¼ | ¼ | ¼ |
| Vulgar fraction 1/2 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ |
| Vulgar fraction 3/4 | ¾ | ¾ | ¾ | ¾ |
| Vulgar fraction 1/3 | ⅓ | -- | ⅓ | ⅓ |
| Vulgar fraction 2/3 | ⅔ | -- | ⅔ | ⅔ |
| Vulgar fraction 1/5 | ⅕ | -- | ⅕ | ⅕ |
| Vulgar fraction 2/5 | ⅖ | -- | ₢ | ⅖ |
| Vulgar fraction 3/5 | ⅗ | -- | ⅗ | ⅗ |
| Vulgar fraction 4/5 | ⅘ | -- | ⅘ | ⅘ |
| Vulgar fraction 1/6 | ⅙ | -- | ⅙ | ⅙ |
| Vulgar fraction 5/6 | ⅚ | -- | ⅚ | ⅚ |
| Vulgar fraction 1/8 | ⅛ | -- | ⅛ | ⅛ |
| Vulgar fraction 3/8 | ⅜ | -- | ⅜ | ⅜ |
| Vulgar fraction 5/8 | ⅝ | -- | ⅝ | ⅝ |
| Vulgar fraction 7/8 | ⅞ | -- | ₖ | ⅞ |