ASCII 247
Division Sign (÷)
Latin-1 Supplement
Division sign (÷), the visual ÷ as opposed to the slash /.
Common uses & context
Decimal 247 (0xF7) is Division Sign, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255). Division sign (÷), the visual ÷ as opposed to the slash /. It renders as '÷' and its binary byte is 11110111.
This is where single-byte ASCII ends and encoding matters. In Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) '÷' is the single byte 0xF7. In UTF-8 — today's default for the web — the same character is the multi-byte sequence 0xC3 0xB7. Treating a Latin-1 byte as UTF-8 (or vice versa) is the usual reason accented letters and symbols turn into mojibake like é or €. The Unicode code point is U+00F7, and in HTML you can write it as ÷ or ÷.
All encodings at a glance
| Decimal | 247 |
| Hexadecimal | 0xF7 |
| Octal | 0367 |
| Binary | 11110111 |
| HTML numeric entity | ÷ |
| HTML named entity | ÷ |
| URL encoding | %F7 |
| UTF-8 bytes | 0xC3 0xB7 |
Code snippets
JavaScript
String.fromCharCode(247); // "÷"
247.toString(16); // "f7"Python
chr(247) # control char ÷
ord(chr(247)) # 247
hex(247) # '0xf7'HTML
÷ <!-- named entity -->
÷ <!-- numeric entity -->Programming notes
- ▸Single byte 0xF7 in Latin-1, but the multi-byte sequence 0xC3 0xB7 in UTF-8 — never assume one byte per character above code 127.
- ▸Unicode code point U+00F7; HTML entity ÷.
- ▸If '÷' shows as mojibake, the encoding declared and the encoding used disagree — align both on UTF-8.
Unicode & UTF-8 note
In Unicode this is U+00F7. In UTF-8 it encodes to the byte sequence 0xC3 0xB7. In legacy Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) it is a single byte 0xF7, which is why Latin-1 files often appear as mojibake when interpreted as UTF-8.
Frequently asked questions
What character is ASCII code 247?
ASCII code 247 is the character '÷' (Division Sign). In hexadecimal it is 0xF7, in octal 0367, and in binary 11110111.
What is 0xF7 in ASCII?
Hexadecimal 0xF7 equals decimal 247, which is the character '÷' (Division Sign). To convert hex to ASCII yourself, read the two hex digits as a base-16 number (0xF7 = 247) and look up that code point.
How do I write the character with code 247 in code?
In JavaScript use String.fromCharCode(247); in Python use chr(247); in HTML use the numeric entity ÷ or the named entity ÷. In a URL it is percent-encoded as %F7, and in UTF-8 it is stored as the byte sequence 0xC3 0xB7.
Is '÷' part of standard ASCII?
No. Standard ASCII covers codes 0–127 only. '÷' is code 247, part of the Latin-1 Supplement (128–255, sometimes called "extended ASCII"). It is a single byte 0xF7 in Latin-1 but a multi-byte sequence (0xC3 0xB7) in UTF-8.