‰

Per Mille Sign

Unicode
U+2030
Category
Math
HTML Entity
‰
CSS
\2030
The per mille sign (‰) represents parts per thousand, acting as a more precise counterpart to the standard percent sign (%). Derived from the Latin "per mille," it frequently appears in specialized fields like finance to express property taxes or in earth sciences to denote water salinity levels. While rarely needed in everyday texting, it is an essential typographic mark for formatting accurate statistical data.

How to Type

Windows
Alt+0137
macOS
Option+Shift+R
Linux
Compose + % + o
HTML
‰

In Programming

In programming, the per mille sign is strictly used within string literals for display and reporting purposes. Modern languages do not support it as a native mathematical operator, requiring developers to use standard division by 1000 for underlying calculations.

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Tags

chemistry finance symbol mathematics parts per thousand per mil per mille per mille symbol per thousand promille property tax rate ratio salinity measurement scientific notation statistics thousandths

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