Interrobang (‽)
The interrobang (‽) is a question mark and an exclamation mark combined in one character. It ends a sentence that is a question and an exclamation at once, such as “You did what‽”
How to read it
Its name joins interrogation, for the question mark, with bang, printers’ slang for the exclamation mark (American Heritage Dictionary). Unicode encodes it as U+203D INTERROBANG. It is rare in print: most writers who want the same tone put the two marks side by side, as ?! or !?, which advertising copywriters had done for decades before the single mark was invented, according to Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words.
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Look-alikes
?! and !? are two separate characters, the usual way of writing the same thing. ‼ (U+203C) is a double exclamation mark. Unicode also encodes an upside-down form, the inverted interrobang ⸘ (U+2E18), whose informal Unicode alias is “gnaborretni”, the name spelled backwards, and a heavy interrobang ornament (U+1F679).
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Sources
- General Punctuation: Range 2000–206F (code chart), The Unicode Standard, Version 18.0, Unicode Consortium, General Punctuation, 203C–203D
- Supplemental Punctuation: Range 2E00–2E7F (code chart), The Unicode Standard, Version 18.0, Unicode Consortium, Supplemental Punctuation, 2E18
- interrobang (American Heritage Dictionary entry), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition, HarperCollins Publishers, interrobang, n.
- The Interrobang Is 60?!, Sara Rosinsky, CreativePro, 2022, CreativePro, article
- Interrobang (World Wide Words), Michael Quinion, World Wide Words, World Wide Words, Interrobang
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