U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
U+2E2E was added to Unicode in version 5.1 (2008). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as punctus percontativus.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2E2E 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 Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Irony punctuation is any form of notation proposed or used to denote irony or sarcasm in text. Written English lacks a standard way to mark irony, and several forms of punctuation have been proposed. Among the oldest and most frequently attested are the percontation point, proposed by English printer Henry Denham in the 1580s, and the irony mark, used by Marcellin Jobard and French poet Alcanter de Brahm during the 19th century. Both marks take the form of a reversed question mark, "⸮".
Irony punctuation is primarily used to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level. A bracketed exclamation point or question mark as well as scare quotes are also occasionally used to express irony or sarcasm.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 11822 |
UTF-8 | E2 B8 AE |
UTF-16 | 2E 2E |
UTF-32 | 00 00 2E 2E |
URL-Quoted | %E2%B8%AE |
HTML hex reference | ⸮ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⸮ |
alias | punctus percontativus |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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5.1 (2008) | |
REVERSED QUESTION MARK | |
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Other Punctuation | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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Yes | |
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Sentence Terminal | |
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Other | |
✘ | |
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Neutral | |
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— | |
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