パーセント (pāsento) means “percent”

More examples

テストで百パーセント取りました。te su to de hyaku pā se n to to ri ma shi ta

I got one hundred percent on the test.

この商品は二十パーセント引きです。ko no shō hin wa ni jū pā se n to hi ki de su

This product is twenty percent off.

Shows how many parts there are in every one hundred parts of a whole.

百分率hyakufunritsu: A formal term for expressing a rate as parts per hundred.

ある量が全体の百に対してどれだけに当たるかを示す単位。a ru ryō ga zen tai no hyaku ni tai shi te do re da ke ni a ta ru ka o shime su tan i

パーセント (pāsento, "percent") is a Japanese borrowing from English percent, which developed from the Latin phrase per centum, "by the hundred".

English commonly uses percent after numbers such as ten or fifty, but percentage is common when the exact number is not given.