U+2048 "⁈" Question Exclamation Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2048 "⁈" Question Exclamation Mark is a typographic ligature that combines a question mark and an exclamation point into a single glyph, used to denote a surprised or incredulous question, such as "You said what⁈" This character, also known as an interrobang in some contexts, differs from the more common interrobang U+203D “‽” in that the exclamation point sits atop the question mark rather than sharing a single unified shape. It falls within the General Punctuation block of the Unicode standard and is often employed in informal or expressive writing to convey a mixture of query and strong emotion, though it is less frequently used than the standard interrobang.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2048 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Question Exclamation Mark |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "?" U+003F Question Mark "!" U+0021 Exclamation Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⁈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⁈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x81 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2048 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002048 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2048 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Nonstarter |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "?" U+003F Question Mark "!" U+0021 Exclamation Mark |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "?" U+003F Question Mark "!" U+0021 Exclamation Mark |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Sentence Terminal | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | STerm |