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Technical information

Symbol	¿
Name	Inverted question mark
Unicode number	U+00BF
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 4. Punctuation

Description

The Unicode character ¿, or U+00BF, is known as the "Inverted Question Mark". It belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Punctuation, Other" category. Visually, it appears as a standard question mark turned upside down. The Inverted Question Mark is a distinctive feature of written Spanish. It is used at the beginning of a question, which is then closed with a standard question mark at the end. For example, "¿Cómo estás?" translates to "How are you?" in English. This usage provides a clear indication that a question is being asked from the very start of the sentence, which can be particularly useful in spoken contexts. The Inverted Question Mark is a unique feature of Spanish orthography but can also be found in other languages influenced by Spanish.

Encoding

HTML Entity	¿
HTML Entity (hex)	¿
HTML Entity (named)	¿
URL Escape Code	%C2%BF
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC2 0xBF
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001010111111
UTF-16	0x00BF
UTF-32	0x000000BF

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00BF"
CSS Code	\00BF
JavaScript	"\u00BF"
Perl	\x{00BF}
Python 2	u"\u00BF"
Python 3	\u00BF
Ruby	\u{00BF}

Preview

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

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#191;</span>

span {
    content: "\00BF";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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