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%

See also: ℅

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

⯙ U+2BD9, ⯙
ASTRAEA
← ⯘
[U+2BD8] 		Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows ⯚ →
[U+2BDA]
﹪ 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

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Etymology

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From o/c, from No/c, an abbreviation of Italian numero per cento (“number per hundred”). For the extension to Astraea is derived from the shift-5 key on the keyboard for asteroid (5).

Symbol

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% (English symbol name percent sign)

  1. Indicates a portion from a total of a hundred.
    Synonyms: cU, centiuno
    10% is equal to 10 portions from 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.
    Synonym: (regular expressions) *
  3. (computing, programming) Used as the symbol for the modulus, placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.
    Synonyms: (mathematics) mod, modulus
  4. (astrology, rare) The asteroid (5) Astraea.
    Synonyms: 🝸, ⑤, ⯔
  5. (Internet) Used in the percent-encoding of uniform resource identifiers such as URLs.
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Further reading

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English

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Etymology

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Back-formation from any% or low%, in which the “%” was a literal indicator of the percentage completion the player would achieve in order to qualify for the given leaderboard category. The suffix was then broadened to form category names in general, where the suffixed term specified some condition about the category, e.g. what score must be obtained, items used, etc., in order to qualify.

Pronunciation

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Pronounced the same as percent.

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈsɛnt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /pɚˈsɛnt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Suffix

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%

  1. (speedrunning) Suffix forming speedrunning categories requiring a given percentage to qualify.
    100% ― 100% of the game must be completed
    any% ― any percentage completion is permitted
    low% ― the lowest possible completion is required
  2. (speedrunning) Suffix forming speedrunning categories related to the suffixed element, or subject to constraints based on it.
    P% ― requiring a “P” rank in order to qualify
    Gears% ― gear items are allowed as part of the run (whereas in the main category runs they would not be)

Derived terms

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Chinese

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Etymology 1

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The pronunciation is from English percent

Pronunciation

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Symbol

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%

  1. (Taiwan) percent

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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%

  1. Alternative form of 啪 (“to have sex”)

Japanese

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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.)
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