GlyphIndexPair comparison
¡ … !
This displays the opening and closing exclamation marks.
Inverted exclamation mark
The inverted exclamation mark ¡ opens an exclamation in Spanish. It is different from the closing ! and the letter i.
INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
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Character details
♡→✦
3 code pointsMeaning and context
The inverted exclamation mark ¡ opens an exclamation in Spanish. It is different from the closing ! and the letter i.
How to use it
Keep language-appropriate punctuation when copying a passage. Use the mark because the sentence requires it, not merely as a visual replacement for a letter i.
Examples
Encoding comparison
¡ U+00A1; ! U+0021; i U+0069
A similar vertical form does not make these characters equivalent.
Similar shapes, different characters
Exclamation mark
U+0021The closing mark is U+0021.
Inverted question mark
U+00BFThis has an interrogative rather than exclamatory role.
DetailsSources and method
- Unicode 18.0.0 character database — Pinned standard character identities and properties; the application computes UTF encodings from the original text.
- Unicode character code charts — Reference glyphs are not a guarantee of the appearance in a user’s font.