U+2E2E Reversed Question Mark
U+2E2E was added in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008. It belongs to the block
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 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+2E2E prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
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 text, in English and other languages, lacks a standard way to mark irony, and several forms of punctuation have been proposed to fill the gap. The oldest is the percontation point in the form of a reversed question mark (⸮), proposed by English printer Henry Denham in the 1580s for marking rhetorical questions, which can be a form of irony. Specific irony marks have also been proposed, such as in the form of an open upward arrow (△
|), used by Marcellin Jobard in the 19th century, and in a form resembling a reversed question mark (), proposed by French poet Alcanter de Brahm during the 19th century.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 |
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Nº | 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 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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