Also known as PERCENT SIGN
percent sign (U+0025), used to indicate a percentage
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, % is referenced by 463 other articles, and connects out to per mille, question mark and slash.
Vinony files it under Mathematical symbols and Typographical symbols.
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
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
- maintained by WikiProject
- 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.