U+061F Arabic Question Mark
U+061F was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Adlam, Arabic, N’Ko, Hanifi Rohingya, Syriac, Thaana, Yezidi.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as Arabic letter from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. It can end sentences at appropriate places. U+061F prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “arabic question mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: arabic, question, question mark.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The question mark ? (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 1567 |
UTF-8 | D8 9F |
UTF-16 | 06 1F |
UTF-32 | 00 00 06 1F |
URL-Quoted | %D8%9F |
HTML hex reference | ؟ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ØŸ |
Encoding: ISO-8859-6 (hex bytes) | BF |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | BF |
Adobe Glyph List | afii57407 |
Adobe Glyph List | questionarabic |
digraph | ?+ |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
ARABIC QUESTION MARK | |
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Arabic | |
Other Punctuation | |
Common | |
Arabic Letter | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Sentence Terminal | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Exclamation/Interrogation | |
none | |
not a number | |
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Adlam Arabic N’Ko Hanifi Rohingya Syriac Thaana Yezidi | |
R |