⅓ One Third Symbol - Copy and Paste
One third (⅓) is 1/3 written as the single Unicode character ⅓ (U+2153), equal to 0.333 as a decimal.
Where ⅓ is used
Shows up in ⅓-cup recipe measures and in photography's rule of thirds, where the frame divides into ⅓ bands. Unlike ½ it lives in the Number Forms block, so a few very old fonts substitute a fallback glyph.
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