Interrobang
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Interrobang has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ‽
- Unicode
- U+203D
About this symbol
The interrobang combines a question mark and an exclamation mark in one sign, for questions asked in disbelief, as in “You did what‽” It was invented in 1962 by Martin K. Speckter, an American advertising executive, who introduced it in an article in the typography magazine TYPEtalks.
Readers sent in names, among them exclamaquest, emphaquest and interropoint, and Speckter chose interrobang, from interrogatio, Latin for a question, and bang, printers’ slang for the exclamation mark. Richard Isbell included it in his Americana typeface in 1965, and Remington offered it as a typewriter key in 1968, but it never reached standard keyboards.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- INTERROBANG
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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