ASCII Character ÷
Division signThe division sign (÷) is a symbol consisting of a short horizontal line with a dot above and another dot below, used in Anglophone countries to indicate mathematical division. However, this usage, though widespread in some countries, is not universal; it is used for other purposes in other countries and its use to denote division is not recommended in the ISO 80000-2 standard for mathematical notation.
Source: Wikipedia
ASCII Code for ÷
These are the code points for division sign in various character sets| Character Sets | Decimal | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| Code page 437 | 246 | F6 |
| ISO-8859-1 | 247 | F7 |
| ISO-8859-2 | 247 | F7 |
| ISO-8859-3 | 247 | F7 |
| ISO-8859-4 | 247 | F7 |
| ISO-8859-8 | 186 | BA |
| ISO-8859-9 | 247 | F7 |
| Windows-1250 | 247 | F7 |
| Windows-1252 | 247 | F7 |
| Windows-1254 | 247 | F7 |
| Windows-1255 | 186 | BA |
| Windows-1256 | 247 | F7 |
| Windows-1257 | 247 | F7 |
| Windows-1258 | 247 | F7 |
Unicode for ÷
The character for division sign is mapped in Unicode as U+00F7| Unicode | U+00F7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 247 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u00f7 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC3 0xB7 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 1100001110110111 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 1100001110110111 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x00F7 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000000F7 | |
HTML Entities for ÷
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the division sign in HTML| HTML Number | ÷ | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | ÷ | |
| HTML Entity | ÷ | |
Related characters
| Symbol | Name |
|---|---|
| * | Asterisk |
| + | Plus |
| / | Slash or divide |
| < | Less than (or open angled bracket) |
| = | Equals |
| > | Greater than (or close angled bracket) |
| × | Multiplication sign |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %C3%B7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =C3=B7 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u00F7" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \00F7 | |
| JavaScript | "\u00F7" | |
| Perl | \x{00F7} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u00F7" | |
| Python 3 | \u00F7 | |
| Ruby | \u{00F7} |