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Glyph for U+00A1
Source: Noto Sans

U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark

U+00A1 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0080 to U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement 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 glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+00A1 prohibits a line break after it.

The CLDR project calls this character “inverted exclamation mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: bang, exclamation, inverted, mark, point.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The upside-down (also inverted, turned or rotated) question mark ¿ and exclamation mark ¡ are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences or clauses in Spanish and some languages that have cultural ties with Spain, such as Asturian and Waray. The initial marks are mirrored at the end of the sentence or clause by the ordinary question mark, ?, or exclamation mark, !.

Upside-down marks are supported by various standards, including ISO-8859-1, Unicode, and HTML. They can be entered directly on keyboards designed for Spanish-speaking countries.

Representations

System Representation
161
UTF-8 C2 A1
UTF-16 00 A1
UTF-32 00 00 00 A1
URL-Quoted %C2%A1
HTML hex reference ¡
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ¡
HTML named entity &iexcl
HTML named entity ¡
Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) AD
Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) AD
Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) AD
Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) AD
Encoding: CP860 (hex bytes) AD
Encoding: CP861 (hex bytes) AD
Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) AD
Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes) AD
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) A2 AE
Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) A1
Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) A1
Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) A1
Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) A1
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) 8F A2 C2
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) A9 A3
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) A9 A3
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) A2 AE
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 30 84 33
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 44 22 42 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 44 22 42 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 51 29 23 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 4F 29 23 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 44 22 42 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) 1B 24 29 43 0E 22 2E 0F
Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) A1
Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) A1
Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) A1
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) D9 AE
Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) C1
Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) C1
Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) C1
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 85 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 85 42
Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) AA
Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) AA
LATEX \textexclamdown
AGL: Latin-1 exclamdown
AGL: Latin-2 exclamdown
AGL: Latin-3 exclamdown
AGL: Latin-4 exclamdown
AGL: Latin-5 exclamdown
Adobe Glyph List exclamdown
digraph !I

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Latin-1 Supplement
General Category (gc) Other Punctuation
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Open Punctuation
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+00A1 Inverted Exclamation Mark
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R