Per Mille Sign
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0137 on the numeric keypad to insert per mille sign.
- Alt code
- Alt+0137
- HTML entity
- ‰
- Unicode
- U+2030
About this symbol
The per mille sign means per thousand, just as % means per hundred: 5‰ is 0.5%. It is common for measures where per cent is too coarse, such as the saltiness of sea water, and in many European countries for blood alcohol limits.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- PER MILLE SIGN
- Also called
- Permille, per thousand
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Used, for example, in measures of blood alcohol content, salinity, etc.
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