U+2049 Exclamation Question Mark
U+2049 was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. It belongs to the block General Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs Exclamation Mark, Question Mark. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. It can end sentences at appropriate places. U+2049 prohibits line breaks before its position. There might be some exceptions, though. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “exclamation question mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: !, !?, ?, exclamation, interrobang, mark, punctuation, question.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ⁉️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The interrobang (), also known as the interabang ‽ (often represented by any of ?!, !?, ?!?,?!!, !?? or !?!), is an unconventional punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also known as the interrogative point) and the exclamation mark (also known in the jargon of printers and programmers as a "bang"). The glyph is a ligature of these two marks and was first proposed in 1962 by Martin K. Speckter.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8265 |
| UTF-8 | E2 81 89 |
| UTF-16 | 20 49 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 49 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%81%89 |
| HTML hex reference | ⁉ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ≠|
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 3.0 (1999) | |
| EXCLAMATION QUESTION MARK | |
| — | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| compatibility | |
| Exclamation Mark Question Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Exclamation Question Mark | |
| Exclamation Question Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Exclamation Question Mark | |
| Exclamation Question Mark | |
| Exclamation Question Mark | |
| Exclamation Question Mark | |
| Exclamation Question Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Exclamation Question Mark | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Exclamation Mark Question Mark | |
| No | |
| Exclamation Mark Question Mark | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Sentence Terminal | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| Exclamation Question Mark | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Nonstarter | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Exclamation Question Mark | |
| U |