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℅ ⁒ ⸓ auto
⯙ ﹪ %
Translingual
Etymology
From o/c, from No/c, an abbreviation of mul it numero per cento number per hundred. For the extension to Astraea is derived from the shift-5 key on the keyboard for asteroid (5).
Symbol
percent sign
Indicates a portion from a total of a hundred.
mul cU centiuno
en 10% is equal to 10 portions from 100.
V x For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.
Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
Decomposition of 4 in the presence of cis-piperylene at room temperature results in the stereocontrolled formation of trans-cycloheptadiene 27 in 90% ee (96% ee at −78 °C).
en mul Jen Christiensen Biden administration sets first national standard to limit ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/health/pfas-drinking-water-standard 2024-04-10 The chemicals are found in the blood of nearly 97% of all Americans, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://web.archive.org/web/20260518235120/https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/health/pfas-drinking-water-standard/ 18 May 2026
mul computing Used as a wildcard, usually in SQL, to stand for zero or more characters.
mul * regular expressions
mul computing programming Used as the symbol for the modulus, placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.
mul mod modulus mathematics
mul astrology rare The asteroid (5) Astraea.
mul ⑤ ⯔
mul internet Used in the percent-encoding of uniform resource identifiers such as URLs.
Related terms
mul ‰
mul ‱
mul ٪
Further reading
English
Etymology
en any% or en low%, in which the “%” was a literal indicator of the percentage completion the player would achieve in order to qualify for the given leaderboard category.
The suffix was then broadened to form category names in general, where the suffixed term specified some condition about the category, e.g. what score must be obtained, items used, etc., in order to qualify.
Pronunciation
Pronounced the same as en percent.
en /pəˈsɛnt/ UK
en /pɚˈsɛnt/ US
en en-us-percent.ogg US
en ɛnt 2
Suffix
en speedrunning Suffix forming speedrunning categories requiring a given percentage to qualify.
en 100% 100% of the game must be completed
en any% any percentage completion is permitted
en low% the lowest possible completion is required
en speedrunning Suffix forming speedrunning categories related to the suffixed element, or subject to constraints based on it.
en P% requiring a “P” rank in order to qualify
en Gears% gear items are allowed as part of the run (whereas in the main category runs they would not be)
Derived terms
en %p %ps at% mol% vol% wt%
Chinese
Etymology 1
The pronunciation is from zh en percent percent
Pronunciation
pā pha symbols
yue is this also used in Cantonese?
Symbol
zh symbol
zh Taiwan percent
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
pā v
Verb
zh 啪 to have sex
Japanese
パーセント
Turkish
Pronunciation
Pronounced the same as tr yüzde.
Prefix
tr prefix
percent used with a following numeral to form a phrase expressing a proportion, which can serve as an adverbial phrase.
tr %100 saf 100% pure