html-entity

¼

¼

¼

HTML named character reference ¼ maps to U+00BC.

Mapping

Named reference
¼
Code point(s)
U+00BC
Decimal
188
Characters
¼

Numeric character references

Named
Decimal
Hex

Usage

Prefer a named reference when the character must survive encoding mistakes or is awkward to type. Numeric references (¼) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02