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Translingual
Numeral
½
- (mathematics) One half
1979 April 14, Larry Beerli, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15:Lonely GM seeking yng penpals to pass ½ century sentence.
- (decomposition) 1, /, 2, ¹, ⅟, ₂
- (fractions) ½, ↉, ⅓, ⅔, ¼, ¾, ⅕, ⅖, ⅗, ⅘, ⅙, ⅚, ⅐, ⅛, ⅜, ⅝, ⅞, ⅑, ⅒, ⅟
- (other scripts) ༪, ⳽, 𐅵, 𐅶