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¿

Inverted Question symbol

Type :inverted_question: · Punctuation

Unicode name Inverted Question Mark · Latin-1 Supplement block · added in Unicode 1.1, 1993

What ¿ is for

Opens a question in Spanish. ¿Cómo estás? Because Spanish word order does not always signal a question up front, the opening mark does the job that English leaves to the final one.

How to type ¿

The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With Emoji Anywhere installed you can skip all of them and type :inverted_question: in any text field instead, which is the same on every platform.

macOS

Option + Shift + Slash

Windows

Alt + 0191

Hold Alt and type the digits on the keypad.

Shortcodes

:inverted_question:

On the web

HTML ¿

Unicode U+00BF

JavaScript '\u{00BF}'

CSS "\00BF"

Python '\u00BF'

URL %C2%BF

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