How to read 12.5%
? I've place it on Google Translate and heard じゅうにてんパーセント, is it correct?
65歳を超えるアメリカ人は全人口の12.5%を構成している。
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Sign up to join this communityHow to read 12.5%
? I've place it on Google Translate and heard じゅうにてんパーセント, is it correct?
65歳を超えるアメリカ人は全人口の12.5%を構成している。
The ・ here is used as the "." would be used in English: to distinguish the round and the decimal part. So it is indeed read as 点{てん}.
So you would read the whole thing as [12]{じゅうに}[・]{てん}[5]{ご}[%]{パーセント}.