Per Ten Thousand Sign HTML entity &pertenk;

&pertenk; is the HTML entity for Per Ten Thousand Sign ‱ (U+2031). Copy ‱, ‱ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.

Entity: &pertenk;
Code point: U+2031
Unicode name: PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN
Block: General Punctuation
Category: Other punctuation (Po)
Since: Unicode 1.1
Defined in: HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML named	`&pertenk;`Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal	`‱`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`‱`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\2031";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u2031"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u2031"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%E2%80%B1`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 80 B1`3 bytes.
UTF-16	`2031`1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

&pertenk; writes U+2031 (Per Ten Thousand Sign), a punctuation mark from the Unicode General Punctuation block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. Typographic punctuation like this is usually inserted by an editor or a smart quotes setting; the entity is handy in hand-written HTML.

The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.

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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).