Inverted question and exclamation marks

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

"¡" redirects here. Not to be confused with Temherte slaq, Sublingual consonant, i, or İ.
"¿" redirects here. For "?", see Question mark. For "!", see Exclamation mark.
¿ ¡
Inverted question mark
Inverted exclamation mark
U+00BF ¿ INVERTED QUESTION MARK
U+00A1 ¡ INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK

Inverted 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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