U+003F Question Mark
U+003F was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Basic Latin in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. It can end sentences at appropriate places. U+003F prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with 8 other glyphs.
The CLDR project calls this character “question mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: mark, 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 a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.
Representations
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| Encoding: ASCII (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) | |
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| Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes) | |
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| Encoding: CP866 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) | |
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| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | |
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| Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes) | |
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| Encoding: CP1125 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | |
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| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_2 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_3 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_4 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_5 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_6 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_10 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_11 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_14 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_16 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: KOI8_R (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: KOI8_U (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: PTCP154 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1025 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1123 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | |
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| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | |
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| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP833 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP838 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | |
| AGL: Latin-1 | |
| AGL: Latin-2 | |
| AGL: Latin-3 | |
| AGL: Latin-4 | |
| AGL: Latin-5 | |
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Related Characters
- Double Question Mark
- Question Exclamation Mark
- Exclamation Question Mark
- Presentation Form for Vertical Question Mark
- Small Question Mark
- Fullwidth Question Mark
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 1.1 (1993) | |
| QUESTION MARK | |
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| Basic Latin | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Question Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Question Mark | |
| Question Mark | |
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| Question Mark | |
| Question Mark | |
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| Question Mark | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
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| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Question Mark | |
| Yes | |
| Question Mark | |
| Yes | |
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| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Sentence Terminal | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Question Mark | |
| None | |
| narrow | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Exclamation/Interrogation | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Question Mark | |
| R |