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U+0025 · PERCENT SIGN

Percent Sign

  • CodepointU+0025
  • NamePERCENT SIGN
  • Decimal37
  • BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classET — European Terminator
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthNa — Narrow
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0025 (%) is PERCENT SIGN, a punctuation mark in the Basic Latin block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8251 byte
UTF-1600251 code unit
UTF-32000000254 bytes
HTML named%named character reference
HTML decimal%
HTML hex%
CSS\25in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0025
JSON\u0025
Python\u0025
Python\N{PERCENT SIGN}by name
Java / C#\u0025
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25}
Go\u0025
Ruby\u0025
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(37)
URL-encoded%25percent-encoded UTF-8
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Characters built on %

U+FE6A﹪Small Percent Sign U+FF05％Fullwidth Percent Sign
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
U+001FUSInformation Separator One U+0020SPSpace U+0021!Exclamation Mark U+0022"Quotation Mark U+0023#Number Sign U+0024$Dollar Sign U+0026&Ampersand U+0027'Apostrophe U+0028(Left Parenthesis U+0029)Right Parenthesis U+002A*Asterisk U+002B+Plus Sign