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Inverted question mark
U+00BF · Latin-1 Supplement
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Meaning and uses
The inverted question mark that opens a question in Spanish, as in ¿Qué tal? Spanish keyboards have it, but most others do not.
Unicode details
¿ is the Unicode character named INVERTED QUESTION MARK, code point U+00BF, 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 QUESTION MARK |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+00BF |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Added | Unicode 1.1 (1993) |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 BF |
| UTF-16 | 00BF |
| 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 00BF 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 question mark”.
- On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 00bf, then Space or Enter.
- In HTML, use
¿or¿. In a CSScontentproperty, use"\00BF".