Question Mark
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 63 on the numeric keypad to insert question mark.
- Alt code
- Alt+63
- HTML entity
- ?
- Unicode
- U+003F
About this symbol
One theory traces the question mark to the Latin quaestio, question, shortened to qo and written with the q above the o, which slowly turned into the curl above a dot. It is a popular explanation rather than a proven one.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- QUESTION MARK
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- ؟ Arabic Question Mark U+061F⸮ Reversed Question Mark U+2E2E⹔ Medieval Question Mark U+2E54� Replacement Character U+FFFD
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.