Question Exclamation Mark

Unicode
U+2048
Category
Punctuation
HTML Entity
⁈
CSS
\2048
The Question Exclamation Mark (⁈) is a single typographical character combining a question mark followed by an exclamation point. Originally added to Unicode for compatibility with East Asian vertical text, this ligature ensures both punctuation marks fit neatly into a single character block without breaking alignment. It is frequently used in digital writing to express intense surprise, disbelief, or an urgent rhetorical question.

How to Type

Windows
Alt+8264
macOS
Control+Command+Space then search "question exclamation"
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+U then 2048
HTML
⁈

In Programming

While not an active operator in programming languages, developers often handle this symbol when managing text rendering and character encoding for East Asian languages or parsing natural language input.

Tags

?! disbelief double punctuation interrobang interrobang variant punctuation question exclamation question mark exclamation rhetorical question shocked surprise surprise punctuation typography ligature unicode punctuation

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