Unicode Text Grep

Grep unicode descriptive names and display matching characters. All descriptions are punctuation-free ASCII (low bit). All searches are case insensitive.

grep special characters supported: * + ? . ^ $ []

Matches for vulgar

Terse results:
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  1. 188     00bc     ¼     VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
  2. 189     00bd     ½     VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
  3. 190     00be     ¾     VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
  4. 8528     2150     ⅐     VULGAR FRACTION ONE SEVENTH
  5. 8529     2151     ⅑     VULGAR FRACTION ONE NINTH
  6. 8530     2152     ⅒     VULGAR FRACTION ONE TENTH
  7. 8531     2153     ⅓     VULGAR FRACTION ONE THIRD
  8. 8532     2154     ⅔     VULGAR FRACTION TWO THIRDS
  9. 8533     2155     ⅕     VULGAR FRACTION ONE FIFTH
  10. 8534     2156     ⅖     VULGAR FRACTION TWO FIFTHS
  11. 8535     2157     ⅗     VULGAR FRACTION THREE FIFTHS
  12. 8536     2158     ⅘     VULGAR FRACTION FOUR FIFTHS
  13. 8537     2159     ⅙     VULGAR FRACTION ONE SIXTH
  14. 8538     215a     ⅚     VULGAR FRACTION FIVE SIXTHS
  15. 8539     215b     ⅛     VULGAR FRACTION ONE EIGHTH
  16. 8540     215c     ⅜     VULGAR FRACTION THREE EIGHTHS
  17. 8541     215d     ⅝     VULGAR FRACTION FIVE EIGHTHS
  18. 8542     215e     ⅞     VULGAR FRACTION SEVEN EIGHTHS
  19. 8585     2189     ↉     VULGAR FRACTION ZERO THIRDS

grep special characters supported:

*
0 or more of last
+
1 or more of last
?
0 or 1 of last
.
any single character
^
force (anchor) to be at start (only useful at start)
$
force (anchor) to be at end (only useful at end, and watch out for trailing whitespace!)
[]
character class (normal sequence shortening with - allowed, and ^ at start to invert works)

From your terminal shell, ugrep by hackerb9 may also prove useful.

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