U+2049 "⁉" Exclamation Question Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2049 "⁉" Exclamation Question Mark is a typographic ligature that combines an exclamation mark and a question mark into a single glyph, used to convey a heightened sense of surprise, disbelief, or urgent inquiry in written text. It serves as a compact way to express an exclamatory question, such as "You did what⁉" and is often employed in informal writing, comics, and digital communication to add emotional intensity. This character is part of the General Punctuation block in Unicode and was introduced to standardize a common expressive symbol that was previously represented by typing the two marks separately or using an interrobang.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2049 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Exclamation Question Mark |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "!" U+0021 Exclamation Mark "?" U+003F Question Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⁉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⁉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x81 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2049 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002049 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2049 |
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+0021 Exclamation Mark "?" U+003F Question Mark |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "!" U+0021 Exclamation Mark "?" U+003F Question 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 |
| Emoji | Yes |
| Extended Pictographic | Yes |