U+0609 "؉" Arabic-Indic Per Mille Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Arabic-Indic Per Mille Sign
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Arabic