What ⁈ means
It marks a question with surprise, disbelief, or alarm.
In vertical text, ⁈ keeps question and exclamation punctuation together in one character; for compatibility, it can be converted to the ordinary two-character sequence ?!.
Playful, emphatic, and typographic; uncommon in everyday messages and formal prose.
As of 2026, ?! or !? is the safer choice when readers need to recognize the punctuation at a glance.
Part of collections
Don't confuse it with
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Interrobang
⁈ vs ‽: the interrobang is a separate single character.
Exclamation Question Mark
It reverses the order: exclamation first, then question.
?! Two characters in question-then-exclamation order.
Related characters
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Combination ideas
5A shocked, disbelieving question.
Chess annotation: a dubious move.
An incredulous reaction to news.
A question with a jolt of surprise.
An exclamation tempered by doubt.
Questions people ask
1Why does ⁈ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
More like this
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Collections with ⁈
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How to type or find ⁈
- Search it as
- interrobang · interabang · question exclamation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⁈CSS
\2048Microsoft Word
As of 2026, type 2048, then press AltX. Choose a supporting font if the glyph is missing.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⁈
HTML hex
⁈
CSS content
content: "\2048";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%81%88
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.