One Quarter Symbol ¼
Tap the button to copy the one quarter symbol, or grab a variant below. The table has its Alt code, HTML entity and Unicode details.
| Copy | Unicode name | Codepoint | HTML | Windows Alt code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vulgar Fraction One Quarter | U+00BC | ¼ | Alt+0188 | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Half | U+00BD | ½ | Alt+0189 | |
| Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters | U+00BE | ¾ | Alt+0190 | |
| Vulgar Fraction One Eighth | U+215B | none | none |
- The one quarter symbol is Unicode U+00BC (Vulgar Fraction One Quarter).
- In HTML, type
¼to get ¼. - On Windows, hold Alt and type 0188 on the numeric keypad.
- It is a single character: it survives copy and paste into any text field and counts as one character against limits.
The one-quarter character keeps fractions tidy in plain text, as in 2¼ cups. It has lived in character sets since before Unicode, so its Windows Alt code is short and well known. The one-eighth series ⅛ through ⅞ covers finer kitchen measures.