How to Type Question Mark ? ¿ ‽
Keyboard shortcuts for standard and special question marks on Windows, Mac, Chromebook, iPhone & Android.
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The standard question mark ? is easy to find on most keyboards, but its special variants are much harder to type. The inverted question mark ¿ is essential in Spanish, where questions begin with ¿ and end with ?. The interrobang ‽ combines a question mark and exclamation point into a single character — perfect for expressing surprised disbelief.
Beyond these, Unicode offers a range of question mark variants: the double question mark ⁇ for emphasis, the question-exclamation ⁈ and exclamation-question ⁉ combinations, and fullwidth variants used in East Asian typography.
This guide covers every method to type these question mark characters on all major platforms. Whether you're writing Spanish text, adding expressive punctuation, or working with international typography, you'll find the right shortcut below. All characters on this page are Unicode text that works everywhere.
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On Windows: hold Alt and type 0191 on the numeric keypad. On Mac: press Option+Shift+? (Option+Shift+/). On iPhone/Android: long-press the ? key and select ¿ from the popup. On Chromebook: Search+Shift+U, type 00BF, Enter. The inverted question mark ¿ is used in Spanish at the beginning of questions.
The interrobang ‽ is a punctuation mark that combines a question mark (?) and an exclamation mark (!). It's used to express surprised disbelief or rhetorical questions with emphasis — 'You did what‽' It was invented in 1962 by Martin K. Speckter. Its Unicode code point is U+203D.
The alt code for the inverted question mark ¿ is Alt+0191. Hold Alt, type 0191 on the numeric keypad, then release. Num Lock must be enabled. You can also use Alt+168 on some systems.
Spanish uses the inverted question mark ¿ at the start of a question so readers know from the beginning that the sentence is a question. This is especially helpful in long sentences. The rule was introduced by the Royal Spanish Academy in 1754 and is mandatory in formal Spanish writing.
These are Unicode ligature characters: ⁇ (U+2047) is a double question mark for strong questioning, ⁈ (U+2048) is question-then-exclamation for surprised questioning, and ⁉ (U+2049) is exclamation-then-question for emphatic questioning. They occupy a single character space instead of two.
Yes! All question mark variants — ¿, ‽, ⁇, ⁈, ⁉ — are Unicode characters that work on all platforms: Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and messaging apps. They display correctly on all modern devices and can make your posts more expressive.