Promille

The phrase per mille (from Latin per mīlle 'in each thousand') indicates parts per thousand. The associated symbol is ‰, similar to a per cent sign % but with an extra zero in the divisor. Major dictionaries do not agree on the spelling, giving other options of per mil, per mill, permil, permill, and permille. The word promille is the cognate in Danish, Dutch, German, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish, and is sometimes seen as a loanword in English with the same meaning as per mille. The symbol is included in the General Punctuation block of Unicode at U+2030 ‰ PER MILLE SIGN. There is also an Arabic-Indic per mille sign at U+0609 ؉ ARABIC-INDIC PER MILLE SIGN.