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interrobang

Fused question mark and exclamation point

Entitycharacter terminal punctuation markQ427676

Also known as ‽ · interabang · ?! · !?

Instance of: character
, terminal punctuation mark

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The interrobang, ‽, also known as the interabang, is a punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark and the exclamation mark. The glyph is a combination of those two marks and was first proposed in 1962 by Martin K. Speckter.

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Unicode character: 🙹 unicode code point: 1F679
🙺 unicode code point: 1F67A
🙻 unicode code point: 1F67B
‽ unicode code point: 203D
Members / parts: question mark
exclamation mark
Different from: hookbang
Based on: hookbang
Discovered: 1962
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Sources
1.nytimes.com/1988/02/16/obituaries/martin-k-speckter-73-creator-of-interrobang.html
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Discovered by: Martin K. Speckter

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AIDB. (2026). interrobang (Q427676). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/interrobang-Q427676