The per sign is a rare symbol used to indicate a
ratio
In mathematics, a ratio () shows how many times one number contains another. For example, if there are eight oranges and six lemons in a bowl of fruit, then the ratio of oranges to lemons is eight to six (that is, 8:6, which is equivalent to the ...
. In English, it can replace the word "per" in phrases such as
miles per hour ("miles ⅌ hour").
Unicode
The
Unicode
Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...
code point is . The symbol does not appear in the ASCII set.
See also
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Wiktionary's entry on the symbol
References
Typographical symbols
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