ASCII 188
Vulgar Fraction One Quarter (¼)
Latin-1 Supplement
One-quarter fraction. Precomposed glyph — for arbitrary fractions use ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ etc.
All encodings at a glance
| Decimal | 188 |
| Hexadecimal | 0xBC |
| Octal | 0274 |
| Binary | 10111100 |
| HTML numeric entity | ¼ |
| HTML named entity | ¼ |
| URL encoding | %BC |
| UTF-8 bytes | 0xC2 0xBC |
Code snippets
JavaScript
String.fromCharCode(188); // "¼"
188.toString(16); // "bc"Python
chr(188) # control char ¼
ord(chr(188)) # 188
hex(188) # '0xbc'HTML
¼ <!-- named entity -->
¼ <!-- numeric entity -->Unicode & UTF-8 note
In Unicode this is U+00BC. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC2 0xBC. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xBC, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.