Inverted Exclamation Mark
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0161 on the numeric keypad to insert inverted exclamation mark.
- Alt code
- Alt+0161
- HTML entity
- ¡
- Unicode
- U+00A1
About this symbol
Spanish opens an exclamation with ¡ and closes it with !, so readers know from the first word how to read the sentence. The Real Academia Española recommended the inverted marks in the second edition of its Ortografía, in 1754, and they slowly became standard over the following century.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Spanish, Asturian, Galician
- Used in extended IPA to represent sublaminal lower alveolar percussive
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