Also known as PERCENT SIGN
percent sign (U+0025), used to indicate a percentage
Key facts
- In unicode
- U+0025 % PERCENT SIGN ( & percnt; )
- Different from
- U+2052 ⁒ COMMERCIAL MINUS SIGN , U+00F7 ÷ DIVISION SIGN
- See also
- U+2030 ‰ PER MILLE SIGN , U+2031 ‱ PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN ( Basis point )
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Wikidata facts
- Depicts
- percent
- Image
- Procent-teken.svg
- Has use
- program comment
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- Unicode character name
- PERCENT SIGN
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- WikiProject Mathematics
- Commons category
- Percent symbols
- Unicode character
- %
- HTML entity
- %
- Unicode code point
- 0025
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- code
- ----- -..-. -----
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Encyclopedic overview
The percent sign % (sometimes per cent sign in British English) is the symbol used to indicate a percentage, a number or ratio as a fraction of 100. Related signs include the permille (per thousand) sign ‰ and the permyriad (per ten thousand) sign ‱. Higher proportions use parts-per notation.
Correct style
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “%” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.