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html-entity

½

½

½

HTML named character reference ½ maps to U+00BD.

Mapping

Named reference
½
Code point(s)
U+00BD
Decimal
189
Characters
½

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 (½) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Unicode

U+00BD

Same character

Other entities

Entities that produce this code point

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02