Divide

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Shortcode
:heavy_division_sign:
Shortcode
:divide:
Unicode
U+2797
HTML
➗
CSS
\2797
JavaScript
"\u{2797}"
URL
%E2%9E%97

divisionheavymathsign÷

What ➗ means

The ÷ sign in heavy form. It means divide, split, or share out.

Friends use ➗ when they split a bill, a pizza or the chores. It also shows up in math homework talk and, less often, for a group that is divided on an issue. With 🟰 it can finish a playful emoji sum.

Facts

Divide ➗ is an emoji in the symbols category, under math. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :heavy_division_sign: or :divide:. People also look for it with words like “division”, “heavy”, “math”, or “sign”.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. divide, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. divide, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. divide, Google (Noto) design from 20192019
  4. divide, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. divide, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. divide, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

symbols · Unicode 6.0