U+060A "؊" Arabic-Indic Per Ten Thousand Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
؊
U+060A "؊" Arabic-Indic Per Ten Thousand Sign is a numeral symbol used in the Arabic script to represent the value of one part per ten thousand, functioning as a fractional or proportional marker rather than a standard digit. It is part of the Arabic block of Unicode and is primarily employed in historical or specialized texts, such as financial documents or mathematical notations, to denote a per ten thousand rate in the context of the Arabic-Indic numeral system. This character is distinct from the more common percent sign or per mille sign, and its design follows the visual style of Arabic-Indic digits, with a unique shape that fits within the cursive flow of Arabic writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+060A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Arabic-Indic Per Ten Thousand 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 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x060A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000060A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u060a |
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 |