U+061F "؟" Arabic Question Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
؟
U+061F "؟" Arabic Question Mark is a punctuation mark used in the Arabic script and several other languages that employ the Arabic alphabet, such as Persian and Urdu. Unlike the Latin question mark, which is placed at the end of a sentence, the Arabic question mark is mirrored horizontally, appearing as a reversed or left to right version of its Western counterpart, reflecting the right to left direction of Arabic text. It serves the same grammatical function as a standard question mark, indicating a direct question, and was included in Unicode to ensure proper representation and rendering of Arabic text in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+061F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Question Mark |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ؟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ؟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x061F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000061F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u061f |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Exclamation/Interrogation |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Adlam Arabic Garay Nko Hanifi Rohingya Syriac Thaana Yezidi |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Sentence Terminal | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | STerm |