U+0609 "؉" Arabic-Indic Per Mille Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0609 "؉" Arabic-Indic Per Mille Sign is a typographic symbol used primarily in Arabic script contexts to represent "per thousand" or a rate of one part in one thousand, analogous to the more common percent sign. It is distinct from the Latin per mille sign (‰) and is specifically designed to align with the right-to-left writing direction and calligraphic style of Arabic text. This character is part of the Arabic block in Unicode and is employed in financial, statistical, and mathematical documents where precise proportional expressions are needed in Arabic-speaking regions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0609 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Arabic-Indic Per Mille Sign |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Terminator |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ؉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ؉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0609 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000609 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0609 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Postfix Numeric |
| Script | Arabic |
| Script Extensions | Arabic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |