Division Sign symbol

Official name

DIVISION SIGN

Unicode block

Latin-1 Supplement

Added in

Unicode 1.1

HTML

÷

HTML hex

÷

CSS content

\F7

JavaScript

\u{F7}

UTF-8 bytes

C3 B7

Keywords

divide, division, obelus, sign, mathematics, equation, science

Keyboard

Windows: hold Alt, type 0247 on the number pad

Mac: ⌥ /

Categories

Maths

The Unicode standard defines this character, but your device’s fonts decide how it looks, so it may differ on other screens.