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Glyph for U+2E2E
Source: Noto Sans

U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark

U+2E2E was added to Unicode in version 5.1 (2008). It belongs to the block U+2E00 to U+2E7F Supplemental Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

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
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

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 5.1 (2008)
Unicode Name REVERSED QUESTION MARK
Unicode 1 Name
Block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
General Category Other Punctuation
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
Case Folding Glyph for U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
Ideographic
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Sentence Terminal
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Exclamation/Interrogation
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R