؟ is the Unicode character ARABIC QUESTION MARK, code point U+061F (decimal 1567) in the Arabic block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ؟, and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes D8 9F.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+061F |
| Decimal | 1567 |
| UTF-8 bytes | D8 9F |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 061F |
| UTF-32 | 0000061F |
| HTML decimal | ؟ |
| HTML hex | ؟ |
| CSS | \61F |
| JavaScript | \u061F |
| JSON | \u061F |
| Python | \u061F |
| Python by name | \N{ARABIC QUESTION MARK} |
| Java, C# | \u061F |
| Rust, Swift | \u{61F} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u061F |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %D8%9F |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | ARABIC QUESTION MARK |
| Code point | U+061F (decimal 1567) |
| Block | Arabic (U+0600–U+06FF) |
| General category | Po: Other punctuation |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | AL: Right-to-left (Arabic) |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in Arabic
- U+0617 Arabic Small High Zain
- U+0618 Arabic Small Fatha
- U+0619 Arabic Small Damma
- U+061A Arabic Small Kasra
- ؛ U+061B Arabic Semicolon
- U+061C Arabic Letter Mark
- ؝ U+061D Arabic End Of Text Mark
- ؞ U+061E Arabic Triple Dot Punctuation Mark
- ؠ U+0620 Arabic Letter Kashmiri Yeh
- ء U+0621 Arabic Letter Hamza
- آ U+0622 Arabic Letter Alef With Madda Above
- أ U+0623 Arabic Letter Alef With Hamza Above
- ؤ U+0624 Arabic Letter Waw With Hamza Above
- إ U+0625 Arabic Letter Alef With Hamza Below
- ئ U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above
- ا U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef
All 256 characters: Arabic.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ؟?
- Use ؟ (decimal) or ؟ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+061F?
- D8 9F (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %D8%9F.
- How do I write U+061F in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u061F. Python: \u061F.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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