fraction slash

English

Examples
⅓ = one third

Etymology

From fraction +‎ slash.

Noun

fraction slash (plural fraction slashes)

1. (typography) The slash variant ⟨⁄⟩ used for expressing fractions.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: murtolukuviiva
• Hungarian: törtvonal (hu)
• Irish: fleascach m
• Italian: barra (it) f, barra obliqua f, sbarretta obliqua f
• Romanian: linie oblică f, bară oblică f

See also

Punctuation

• apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
• curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
• square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
• colon ( : )
• comma ( , )
• dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
• ellipsis ( … )
• exclamation mark ( ! )
• fraction slash ( ⁄ )
• guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
• hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
• interpunct ( · )
• interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
• brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
• full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
• quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
• semicolon ( ; )
• slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
• space ( ] [ )