Divide Emoji

Symbols

A bold, heavy division sign consisting of a horizontal bar with a dot positioned directly above and below it. It is the universal shorthand for splitting a number or set into equal parts.

Usage Context

Used frequently in chat to indicate a mathematical operation, or figuratively to describe splitting costs, sharing food, or dividing responsibilities. It is a natural companion to the ➕ addition or ➖ subtraction symbols.

History

While the division symbol has been used in western mathematics since the 17th century to denote ratios and fractions, it was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2010 to help mobile operating systems render complete calculator interfaces for users.

Details

Glyph

➗

Unicode

U+2797

Shortcode

:emoji_u2797:

HTML Entity

➗

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory math

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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