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Inverted exclamation mark
U+00A1 · Latin-1 Supplement
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Meaning and uses
The inverted exclamation mark that opens an exclamation in Spanish, as in ¡Hola! It is also used in Galician and Asturian.
Unicode details
¡ is the Unicode character named INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK, code point U+00A1, in the Latin-1 Supplement block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as punctuation (general category Po).
It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.
| Unicode name | INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+00A1 |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Added | Unicode 1.1 (1993) |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 A1 |
| UTF-16 | 00A1 |
| HTML | ¡ or ¡ |
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How to type ¡
- On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
- In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 00A1 and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ¡.
- On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “inverted exclamation mark”.
- On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 00a1, then Space or Enter.
- In HTML, use
¡or¡. In a CSScontentproperty, use"\00A1".