U+FE6A "﹪" Small Percent Sign Unicode Character

U+FE6A "﹪" Small Percent Sign is a typographic variant of the standard percent symbol, designed to be used in East Asian text settings where a smaller, more compact glyph is preferred to harmonize with the surrounding ideographic characters. It belongs to the "Small Form Variants" block in Unicode, which provides smaller versions of common punctuation and symbols for compatibility with certain legacy character sets and traditional typesetting practices. While visually similar to the regular percent sign, its reduced size helps maintain visual balance in lines of text that mix fullwidth and halfwidth characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE6A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Small Percent Sign
Block	Small Form Variants
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	European Terminator
Decomposition Type	Small
Decomposition Mapping	"%" U+0025 Percent Sign

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	﹪
HTML Hex Encoding	﹪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB9 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE6A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE6A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe6a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Postfix Numeric
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"%" U+0025 Percent Sign
NFKC Simple Casefold	"%" U+0025 Percent Sign
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other