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U+061F · ARABIC QUESTION MARK

Arabic Question Mark

  • CodepointU+061F
  • NameARABIC QUESTION MARK
  • Decimal1567
  • BlockArabic (U+0600–U+06FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classAL — Arabic Letter
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+061F (؟) is ARABIC QUESTION MARK, a punctuation mark in the Arabic 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).

It is a strong right-to-left character (bidirectional class AL), so it sets the direction of the text around it. See bidirectional text.

How to type ؟

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D8 9F2 bytes
UTF-16061F1 code unit
UTF-320000061F4 bytes
HTML decimal؟
HTML hex؟
CSS\61Fin content: "…"
JavaScript\u061F
JSON\u061F
Python\u061F
Python\N{ARABIC QUESTION MARK}by name
Java / C#\u061F
C / C++\u061Funiversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{61F}
Go\u061F
Ruby\u061F
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1567)
URL-encoded%D8%9Fpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+2E2E⸮Reversed Question Mark
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
U+0619◌ؙArabic Small Damma U+061A◌ؚArabic Small Kasra U+061B؛Arabic Semicolon U+061CALMArabic Letter Mark U+061D؝Arabic End of Text Mark U+061E؞Arabic Triple Dot Punctuation Mark U+0620ؠArabic Letter Kashmiri Yeh U+0621ءArabic Letter Hamza U+0622آArabic Letter Alef with Madda Above U+0623أArabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above U+0624ؤArabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above U+0625إArabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below