U+FE56 "﹖" Small Question Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE56 "﹖" Small Question Mark is a punctuation mark belonging to the Small Form Variants block, designed primarily for compatibility with East Asian typographic conventions where smaller punctuation is used alongside vertical or full-width text. It functions as a reduced version of the standard question mark, allowing for consistent scaling in contexts like historical documents, technical notation, or CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) typesetting where characters are often uniform in size. This character maintains the same visual shape and usage as a question mark but is rendered at a smaller size, and it is encoded separately to preserve distinction in digital text processing and font rendering systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE56 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Small Question Mark |
| Block | Small Form Variants |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Small |
| Decomposition Mapping | "?" U+003F Question Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﹖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﹖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB9 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE56 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe56 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Exclamation/Interrogation |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "?" U+003F Question Mark |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "?" U+003F Question Mark |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Sentence Terminal | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | STerm |