U+003F Question Mark
U+003F was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Narrow East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 8 other glyphs. In text U+003F behaves as Exclamation/Interrogation regarding line breaks. It has type Sentence Terminal for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “question mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: question.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The question mark ? (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates an interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 63 |
UTF-8 | 3F |
UTF-16 | 00 3F |
UTF-32 | 00 00 00 3F |
URL-Quoted | %3F |
HTML hex reference | ? |
HTML named entity | ? |
AGL: Latin-1 | question |
AGL: Latin-2 | question |
AGL: Latin-3 | question |
AGL: Latin-4 | question |
AGL: Latin-5 | question |
Adobe Glyph List | question |
digraph | ? |
Related Characters
Double Question MarkGlyph for U+2047 Question Exclamation MarkGlyph for U+2048 Exclamation Question MarkGlyph for U+2049 Presentation Form for Vertical Question MarkGlyph for U+FE16 Small Question MarkGlyph for U+FE56 Fullwidth Question MarkGlyph for U+FF1F
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
QUESTION MARK | |
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Basic Latin | |
Other Punctuation | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✔ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Sentence Terminal | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Narrow | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Exclamation/Interrogation | |
None | |
not a number | |
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