¡

Technical information

Symbol¡
NameInverted exclamation mark
Unicode numberU+00A1
CategoryExclamation markLatin-1 Supplement2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ¡, or U+00A1, is known as the "Inverted Exclamation Mark". It belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block and falls under the "Punctuation, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a mirror image of the typical exclamation mark and is commonly used in written Spanish to denote the start of an exclamatory sentence or phrase. The corresponding regular exclamation mark appears at the end of the phrase, framing the exclaimed words or sentences.

Encoding

HTML Entity¡
HTML Entity (hex)¡
HTML Entity (named)¡
URL Escape Code%C2%A1
UTF-8 (hex)0xC2 0xA1
UTF-8 (binary)1100001010100001
UTF-160x00A1
UTF-320x000000A1

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u00A1"
CSS Code\00A1
JavaScript"\u00A1"
Perl\x{00A1}
Python 2u"\u00A1"
Python 3\u00A1
Ruby\u{00A1}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ¡ in sentence and in bold like this ¡ and in italic like this ¡.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#161;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\00A1";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References