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U+00BF · INVERTED QUESTION MARK

Inverted Question Mark

  • CodepointU+00BF
  • NameINVERTED QUESTION MARK
  • Decimal191
  • BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+00BF (¿) is INVERTED QUESTION MARK, a punctuation mark in the Latin-1 Supplement block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ¿

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C2 BF2 bytes
UTF-1600BF1 code unit
UTF-32000000BF4 bytes
HTML named¿named character reference
HTML decimal¿
HTML hex¿
CSS\BFin content: "…"
JavaScript\u00BF
JSON\u00BF
Python\u00BF
Python\N{INVERTED QUESTION MARK}by name
Java / C#\u00BF
C / C++\u00BFuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{BF}
Go\u00BF
Ruby\u00BF
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(191)
URL-encoded%C2%BFpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
U+00B9¹Superscript One U+00BAºMasculine Ordinal Indicator U+00BB»Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark U+00BC¼Vulgar Fraction One Quarter U+00BD½Vulgar Fraction One Half U+00BE¾Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters U+00C0ÀLatin Capital Letter A with Grave U+00C1ÁLatin Capital Letter A with Acute U+00C2ÂLatin Capital Letter A with Circumflex U+00C3ÃLatin Capital Letter A with Tilde U+00C4ÄLatin Capital Letter A with Diaeresis U+00C5ÅLatin Capital Letter A with Ring Above