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⸮ Reversed Question Mark

punctus percontativus, irony, sarcasm

U+2E2E

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Technical information

Name	Reversed Question Mark
Unicode number	U+2E2E
HTML-code	⸮
CSS-code	\2E2E
Block	Supplemental Punctuation
Unicode version:	5.1 (2008)

Symbol meaning

Although in the written English language there is no standard way to denote irony or sarcasm, several forms of punctuation have been proposed. Among the oldest and frequently attested are the percontation point invented by English printer Henry Denham in the 1580s, and the irony mark, furthered by French poet Alcanter de Brahm in the 19th century. Both of these marks were represented visually by a backwards question mark.

These punctuation marks are primarily used to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level. A bracketed exclamation point and/or question mark as well as scare quotes are also sometimes used to express irony or sarcasm.

Reversed Question Mark was approved as part of Unicode 5.1 in 2008.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский; Magyar;

Properties

Age	5.1
Block	Supplemental Punctuation
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case Folding	2E2E
Simple Case Folding	2E2E

Encoding

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 B8 AE	226 184 174	14858414	11100010 10111000 10101110
UTF-16BE	2E 2E	46 46	11822	00101110 00101110
UTF-16LE	2E 2E	46 46	11822	00101110 00101110
UTF-32BE	00 00 2E 2E	0 0 46 46	11822	00000000 00000000 00101110 00101110
UTF-32LE	2E 2E 00 00	46 46 0 0	774766592	00101110 00101110 00000000 00000000

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