Unicode Character "¿" (U+00BF)

The character ¿ (Inverted Question Mark) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00BF. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ¿.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Inverted Question Mark
Unicode Codepoint U+00BF
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+00BF Conversion

HTML (decimal) ¿
HTML (hex) ¿
HTML (named) ¿
URL Escape Code %C2%BF
CSS \0000BF
JavaScript, JSON \u00BF
C, C++, Java \u00BF
Python \u00BF
Rust \u{00BF}
Ruby \u00BF

How to type "¿"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 B F. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 B F. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ¿
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ¿
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ¿
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xBF
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00BF
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000BF

References