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Percent Sign

U+0025
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character %
Decimal %
Hex %

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+0025
Decimal
37
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Punctuation (Po)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ET European Number Terminator
East Asian Width
Na Narrow

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

º/₀ U+00BA U+002F U+2080

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Percent Sign.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
%
HTML Hex
%
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
25
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
00 25
UTF-32 Hex
00000025
CSS Escape
\25
JavaScript Escape
\u0025
Python Escape
\u0025
URL Encoded
%25
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Percent Sign as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.