Upside-down question and exclamation marks

¿ ¡
Upside-down question mark
Upside-down exclamation mark
U+00BF ¿ INVERTED QUESTION MARK
U+00A1 ¡ INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK


The upside-down (also inverted, turned or rotated) question mark ¿ and exclamation mark ¡ are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences or clauses in Spanish and some languages that have cultural ties with Spain, such as Asturian and Waray. The initial marks are mirrored at the end of the sentence or clause by the ordinary question mark, ?, or exclamation mark, !.

Upside-down marks are supported by various standards, including ISO-8859-1, Unicode, and HTML. They can be entered directly on keyboards designed for Spanish-speaking countries.

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