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Also known as PERCENT SIGN

percent sign (U+0025), used to indicate a percentage

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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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Unicode character name: PERCENT SIGN
Commons category: Percent symbols
Unicode character: %
HTML entity: %
Unicode code point: 0025
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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.

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