Per Ten Thousand Sign

Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks

Per Ten Thousand Sign has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.

Alt code
None
HTML entity
‱
Unicode
U+2031

About this symbol

‱ means per ten thousand, just as % means per hundred and ‰ per thousand. In finance one part per ten thousand is a basis point, the unit for small changes in interest rates: a rise of 25 basis points is a quarter of one per cent.

Unicode facts

Official name
PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN
Also called
Permyriad
Type
Punctuation
Unicode block
General Punctuation
Added in
Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Unicode notes
  • Percent of a percent, rarely used
Related
% Percent Sign U+0025
؊ Arabic-Indic Per Ten Thousand Sign U+060A

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