U+2030 "‰" Per Mille Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2030 "‰" Per Mille Sign is a typographic symbol representing the phrase "per thousand" or "parts per thousand," indicating a proportion out of 1,000 units. It is commonly used in fields such as finance, statistics, and chemistry to denote rates, fees, concentrations, or other ratios where greater precision than a percentage is required, as one per mille equals one tenth of one percent. The character is distinct from the percent sign (%) and is encoded in the General Punctuation block of Unicode, ensuring consistent representation across digital text and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2030 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Per Mille Sign |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Terminator |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ‰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ‰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x80 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2030 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002030 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2030 |