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Technical information
| Symbol | % | |
| Name | Percent sign | |
| Unicode number | U+0025 | |
| Category | ASCII Table2. ASCII punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character %, or U+0025, is known as the "Percent Sign". It is part of the "Basic Latin" block, which is the standard ASCII set of characters used in English and many other languages. This character falls under the "Symbol, Other" category. Visually, it is depicted as two circles separated by a slash. The Percent Sign is commonly used in mathematics and everyday language to denote a proportion or ratio out of one hundred. For instance, in the statement "50% of people prefer coffee over tea", the Percent Sign signifies that fifty out of every hundred people have a preference for coffee. As with other characters, the specific usage of the Percent Sign can depend on the language and context. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | % | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | % | |
| HTML Entity (named) | % | |
| URL Escape Code | %25 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x25 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00100101 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x0025 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000025 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0025" | |
| CSS Code | \0025 | |
| JavaScript | "\u0025" | |
| Perl | \x{0025} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u0025" | |
| Python 3 | \u0025 | |
| Ruby | \u{0025} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this % in sentence and in bold like this % and in italic like this %.
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Font size:
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>%</span>
span {
content: "\0025";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana