¼ Quarter Symbol - Copy and Paste (One Fourth)
One quarter (¼) is 1/4 written as the single Unicode character ¼ (U+00BC), equal to 0.25 as a decimal.
Where ¼ is used
Quarter past the hour, ¼-inch jack plugs on guitars and headphones, ¼ teaspoon in recipes. One of only three fractions in Windows-1252, which is why it has a real Alt code while most fractions do not.
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