Percent Sign
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 37 on the numeric keypad to insert percent sign.
- Alt code
- Alt+37
- HTML entity
- %
- Unicode
- U+0025
About this symbol
The percent sign grew out of Italian merchants’ shorthand for “per cento”, meaning “for each hundred”. Between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries the written abbreviation shrank to a small circle over a stroke, and finally to the two circles and slash used today.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- PERCENT SIGN
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.