% Percent Sign

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Units · MathU+0025 · Basic Latin
%

Percent Sign

U+0025 · decimal 37 · Basic Latin

Every way to write it

6 forms
HTML entity

%

This character has no named entity, so the numeric form is the one to use.

CSS content

\0025

For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.

JavaScript

\u0025

Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.

Python

\u0025

The escape for a Python string literal.

URL

%25

Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.

UTF-8 bytes

25

1 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.

Typing it without copying

system picker
macOS

Control + Command + Space, then search percent sign

Windows

Character Map or Alt + 37

Groups it belongs to

Characters near it

8
Code pointU+0025
EntityNumeric
UTF-81 bytes
ASCIIYes