Interrobang

The interrobang ‽ combines a question mark and an exclamation mark. It adds a surprised or emphatic tone to an informal question.

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Meaning and context

The interrobang ‽ combines a question mark and an exclamation mark. It adds a surprised or emphatic tone to an informal question.

How to use it

Use sparingly in informal prose where a surprised question is intended. For formal or constrained text, an ordinary question mark may be more portable.

Examples

Surprised question

You finished the entire draft already‽

The original sentence conveys a surprised question.

Encoding contrast

‽ versus ?!

The left side is one character; the right side is a two-character fallback.

Similar shapes, different characters

?!

Question mark and exclamation mark

U+003F U+0021

This is a sequence, not U+203D.

¿

Inverted question mark

U+00BF

This has a language-specific opening punctuation role.

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