U+2753 Black Question Mark Ornament

U+2753 was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block U+2700 to U+27BF Dingbats in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2753 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The CLDR project calls this character “red question mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: ?, mark, punctuation, question.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: ❓︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.