What is an interrobang?

An interrobang is an exclamation mark and a question mark on top of each other: ‽. It’s used instead of ?! or !?.


An interrobang is a special symbol that is both a question mark and an exclamation mark. It can be used instead of writing a question mark and exclamation mark separately: ?! or !?.

The interrobang is not widely used. This is partly because not that many people know about it, but it’s also because many fonts do not provide a glyph for the character, so an alternative font must be used for just that character, which tends to be visually jarring.

Even for the fonts which do have a glyph for the character, the glyph often doesn’t look very good – the two separate punctuation marks do not overlap well.

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