DIVISION SIGN

Codepoint
U+00F7
Literal Character
รท
Name
DIVISION SIGN
Sketch
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Aliases
obelus
Control Character
no
Subblock
Mathematical operator
UTF-8 byte encoding
c3 b7
UTF-16 byte encoding
00 f7 (big endian)
HTML Entity
÷
Perl string literal
\x{F7}
Comments
  • occasionally used as an alternate, more visually distinct shape for a hyphen in some contexts
  • historically used as a punctuation mark to denote questionable passages in manuscripts
See Also
U+070B: syriac harklean obelus
U+2052: commercial minus sign
U+2215: division slash
U+2223: divides
U+2236: ratio
U+2797: heavy division sign
U+27CC: long division
U+2E13: dotted obelos
Wikipedia
Obelus (en)