U+2E18 "⸘" Inverted Interrobang Unicode Character

U+2E18 "⸘" Inverted Interrobang is a punctuation mark used primarily in Spanish and some other languages to denote a question or exclamation that is immediately obvious from the start of the sentence, serving as an inverted counterpart to the standard interrobang (‽). It combines the inverted question mark (¿) and inverted exclamation mark (¡) into a single glyph, allowing writers to signal a surprised or rhetorical question from the very beginning of a statement, much like the opening marks in Spanish punctuation. This character is rarely used in practice, as most writers still prefer to write two separate marks (¿¡ or ¡¿) for clarity, but its inclusion in Unicode provides a standardized option for digital typography and specialized linguistic notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2E18
Version Added	5.1
Name	Inverted Interrobang
Block	Supplemental Punctuation
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	⸘
HTML Hex Encoding	⸘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xB8 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2E18
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002E18
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2e18

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	Open Punctuation
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Pattern Syntax	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other