DIVISION SIGN

Property Value
Codepoint U+00F7
Literal Character รท
Name DIVISION SIGN
Sketch
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Aliases obelus
Control Character no
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Subblock ASCII punctuation and symbols
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