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Percent Sign

Group: Punctuation

Keywords

About this character

Percent Sign belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+0025. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point
U+0025
Hex
0025
Decimal
37
HTML
%
CSS
\25
JavaScript
\u0025
Python
\u0025
UTF-8
25

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

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