U+2215

DIVISION SLASH

Sm — Math Symbol
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
8725

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent DIVISION SLASH in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 E2 88 95 226 136 149 3
UTF-16 LE 15 22 21 34 2
UTF-16 BE 22 15 34 21 2
UTF-32 LE 15 22 00 00 21 34 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 22 15 0 0 34 21 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP not supported
GBK A8 4D 168 77 2
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
∕
∕
\2215
\u2215
%E2%88%95
\u2215
8725

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
E2
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
88
·
Byte 3
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
95
UTF-8: E2 88 95 · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+2215

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
ON — Other Neutral
Yes — has a mirrored counterpart in RTL context

Nearby Characters in Mathematical Operators