Unicode Character "¿" U+00BF Inverted Question Mark

Unicode Version 15.1

¿

Summary

The unicode character "¿" at code point U+00BF is Inverted Question Mark. It is a character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is part of the Common script. The character is an other punctuation. The UTF-8 encoding of "¿" is 0xC2 0xBF and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x00BF.

General Properties

Code Point U+00BF
Version Added 1.1
Name Inverted Question Mark
Block Latin-1 Supplement
General Category Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Entity ¿
HTML Decimal Encoding ¿
HTML Hex Encoding ¿
UTF-8 Encoding 0xC2 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x00BF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000000BF
C/C++/Java Escape \u00bf

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Open Punctuation
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other