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Find more about the U+00F7 Unicode character below, including its properties, usage, and encoding details.
| Codepoint | U+00F7 |
|---|---|
| Name | Division Sign |
| Alias | obelus |
| Category | Math Symbol (Sm) |
| Script | Common |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Plane | Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Numeric Character Reference | ÷ |
| Hexadecimal Numeric Character Reference | ÷ |
| HTML Named Character Reference (HTML Named Entity) | ÷÷ |
| CSS Character Reference (CSS Escape Code) | \00F7 |
| Links | Plain https://everychar.com/code/U+00F7Markdown [U+00F7](https://everychar.com/code/U+00F7) |
| Notes | Occasionally used as an alternate, more visually distinct shape for a hyphen in some contexts. Historically used as a punctuation mark to denote questionable passages in manuscripts. |