%

See also: ℅

also %

% U+0025, % PERCENT SIGN ← $ [U+0024] Basic Latin & → [U+0026]

﹪ U+FE6A, ﹪ SMALL PERCENT SIGN ← ﹩ [U+FE69] Small Form Variants ﹫ → [U+FE6B]

％ U+FF05, ％ FULLWIDTH PERCENT SIGN ← ＄ [U+FF04] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ＆ → [U+FF06]

Translingual

Etymology

From ^o/c, from N^o/c, an abbreviation of Italian numero per cento (“number per hundred”).

Symbol

%

1. The percent; portion of a total of 100.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page x:

     For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.

   • Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich

     Decomposition of 4 in the presence of cis-piperylene at room temperature results in the stereocontrolled formation of trans-cycloheptadiene 27 in 90% ee (96% ee at -78 °C).

2. (computing) Used as a wildcard, usually in SQL, to stand for zero or more characters.
3. (computing, programming) Used as the symbol for the modulus, placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.
4. (astrology, rare) the asteroid (5) Astraea.

Synonyms

• (parts per hundred): cU, centiuno
• (wildcard): *
• (modulus): mod, modulus
• (astrology): ⯙ (dedicated Unicode character for this sense)

Derived terms

• ‰
• ‱
• %p
• %ps
• ٪

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Chinese

Etymology 1

The pronunciation is from English percent

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pā (pa¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄚ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pha

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pā
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pa
    • Wade–Giles: pʻa¹
    • Yale: pā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pa
    • Palladius: па (pa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰä⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pha
    • Tâi-lô: pha
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phaf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰa³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰa⁴⁴/

Symbol

%

1. (Taiwan) percent

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pā (pa¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pā
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pa
    • Wade–Giles: pʻa¹
    • Yale: pā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pa
    • Palladius: па (pa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰä⁵⁵/

Verb

%

1. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 啪 (pā, “to have sex”).

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of % – see the following entry.

【パーセント】 [noun] percent

(This term, %, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)