Inverted Question Mark
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0191 on the numeric keypad to insert inverted question mark.
- Alt code
- Alt+0191
- HTML entity
- ¿
- Unicode
- U+00BF
About this symbol
Spanish opens a question with ¿ and closes it with ?, so readers know from the first word that a sentence is a question. 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 QUESTION MARK
- Also called
- Turned question mark
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Spanish
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Windows Extended Codes: 0128 to 0255 chart for related characters.