graphic symbol vs percent sign

percent sign vs graphic symbol

graphic symbol and percent sign both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
graphic symbol	Yes	No	No	No
percent sign	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, percent sign is a hyponym of graphic symbol; that is, percent sign is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than graphic symbol:

graphic symbol: a written symbol that is used to represent speech
percent sign: a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100

Other hyponyms of graphic symbol include allograph, check character, superior, superscript, inferior, subscript, ASCII character, ligature, capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter, type, percentage sign, asterisk, star, dagger, obelisk, diesis, double dagger, double obelisk, alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet, blank, space, phonetic symbol, mathematical symbol, rune, runic letter, pictograph, ideogram, ideograph, radical, stenograph, siglum.

graphic symbol (noun)	percent sign (noun)
a written symbol that is used to represent speech	a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100

Difference between graphic symbol and percent sign

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