U+00A1 "¡" Inverted Exclamation Mark Unicode Character

U+00A1 "¡" Inverted Exclamation Mark is a punctuation symbol used primarily in Spanish and other Romance languages to mark the beginning of an exclamatory sentence or phrase, where it is paired with the standard exclamation mark at the end. It was added to the Unicode standard in version 1.1 and is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block, originating from the ISO 8859-1 character set. Historically, its use in Spanish was established by the Royal Spanish Academy in the 18th century to provide clear visual cues for intonation in written text, especially in longer sentences, and it is also employed in Galician, Asturian, and occasionally in older or stylized Catalan.