graphic symbol vs percentage sign

percentage sign vs graphic symbol

graphic symbol and percentage sign both are nouns.

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

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

graphic symbol: a written symbol that is used to represent speech
percentage 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, percent 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)	percentage 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 percentage sign

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