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style="width:25em;max-width:100%;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:left;margin-bottom:7px;font-size:100%;"> <div class="NavHead">Character variations</div> <div class="NavContent"> <table class="wikitable floatright character-info" style="width:25em;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Text style</th> <th>Emoji style </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center; width: 50%;"><span class="skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Android_Emoji_2753.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Android_Emoji_2753.svg/120px-Android_Emoji_2753.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="105" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Android_Emoji_2753.svg/180px-Android_Emoji_2753.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Android_Emoji_2753.svg/240px-Android_Emoji_2753.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="448" /></a></span></td> <td style="text-align: center; width: 50%;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Noto_Emoji_v2.034_2753.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Noto_Emoji_v2.034_2753.svg/120px-Noto_Emoji_v2.034_2753.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Noto_Emoji_v2.034_2753.svg/180px-Noto_Emoji_v2.034_2753.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Noto_Emoji_v2.034_2753.svg/240px-Noto_Emoji_v2.034_2753.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr style="font-size: 250%; text-align: center; background: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);"> <td style="padding: 0;">❓︎</td> <td style="padding: 0;">❓️ </td></tr> <tr style="font-size: 80%;"> <td colspan="2">Text style is <a href="/wiki/variation_selector" title="variation selector">forced with</a> ⟨&#xFE0E;⟩ and emoji style with ⟨&#xFE0F;⟩. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 70px;" colspan="2"><table><tbody><tr><td><span class="character-sample-primary Zsym">❓</span></td><td> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=2753">U+2753</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references" class="extiw" title="w:List of XML and HTML character entity references">&#10067;</a> <div class="character-sample-name">BLACK QUESTION MARK ORNAMENT</div></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;font-size:80%;white-space:nowrap"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;text-align:left"></td><td style="width:50%;text-align:right"></td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="width:100%;text-align:center"><tbody><tr><td style="width:20%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E2%9D%92&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="❒ (page does not exist)"><span title="UPPER RIGHT SHADOWED WHITE SQUARE">← <span class="character-sample-secondary Zsym">❒</span><br /><small>[U+2752]</small></span></a> </td><td 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center; background: rgba(0,0,0,0.1);"> <td style="padding: 0;">❔︎</td> <td style="padding: 0;">❔️ </td></tr> <tr style="font-size: 80%;"> <td colspan="2">Text style is <a href="/wiki/variation_selector" title="variation selector">forced with</a> ⟨&#xFE0E;⟩ and emoji style with ⟨&#xFE0F;⟩. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 70px;" colspan="2"><table><tbody><tr><td><span class="character-sample-primary Zsym">❔</span></td><td> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=2754">U+2754</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references" class="extiw" title="w:List of XML and HTML character entity references">&#10068;</a> <div class="character-sample-name">WHITE QUESTION MARK ORNAMENT</div></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;font-size:80%;white-space:nowrap"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;text-align:left"></td><td style="width:50%;text-align:right"></td></tr></tbody></table> <table 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Forms">Vertical Forms</a> </td><td style="width:20%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%EF%B8%97&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="︗ (page does not exist)"><span title="PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET"><span class="character-sample-secondary None">︗</span> →<br /><small>[U+FE17]</small></span></a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r75637847" /> <table class="wikitable floatright character-info" style="width:25em;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 70px;" colspan="2"><table><tbody><tr><td><span class="character-sample-primary None">﹖</span></td><td> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=FE56">U+FE56</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references" class="extiw" title="w:List of XML and HTML character entity references">&#65110;</a> <div class="character-sample-name">SMALL QUESTION MARK</div></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;font-size:80%;white-space:nowrap"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;text-align:left"></td><td style="width:50%;text-align:right"></td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="width:100%;text-align:center"><tbody><tr><td style="width:20%"><a href="/wiki/%EF%B9%95" class="mw-redirect" title="﹕"><span title="SMALL COLON">← <span class="character-sample-secondary None">﹕</span><br /><small>[U+FE55]</small></span></a> </td><td style="width:60%;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Unicode/Small_Form_Variants" title="Appendix:Unicode/Small Form Variants">Small Form Variants</a> </td><td style="width:20%"><a href="/wiki/%EF%B9%97" class="mw-redirect" title="﹗"><span title="SMALL EXCLAMATION MARK"><span class="character-sample-secondary None">﹗</span> →<br /><small>[U+FE57]</small></span></a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table><link 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GREATER-THAN SIGN">← <span class="character-sample-secondary None">＞</span><br /><small>[U+FF1E]</small></span></a> </td><td style="width:60%;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Unicode/Halfwidth_and_Fullwidth_Forms" title="Appendix:Unicode/Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms">Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms</a> </td><td style="width:20%"><a href="/wiki/%EF%BC%A0" class="mw-redirect" title="＠"><span title="FULLWIDTH COMMERCIAL AT"><span class="character-sample-secondary None">＠</span> →<br /><small>[U+FF20]</small></span></a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r75637847" /></div></div> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Translingual">Translingual</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%3F&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Translingual"><span>edit</span></a><span 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One is that <span class="orth-brac">⟨</span><span class="orth-content">?</span><span class="orth-brac">⟩</span> descends from the <i><a href="/wiki/punctus_interrogativus" title="punctus interrogativus">punctus interrogativus</a></i> <span class="orth-brac">⟨</span><span class="orth-content"><a href="/wiki/%E2%B9%94" title="⹔">⹔</a></span><span class="orth-brac">⟩</span>, which instructed the reader (or singer) to raise the pitch of their voice while coming to a stop. </p><p>Another theory is that it derives from <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\overset {Q}{o}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mover> <mi>o</mi> <mi>Q</mi> </mover> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\overset {Q}{o}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/ef8543115cf96a1dd6cbb0fe6278fbec4d83c8d1" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.3ex; height:3.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\overset {Q}{o}}}" /></span>, an abbreviation of <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Latin">Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/quaestio#Latin" title="quaestio">quaestiō</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">question</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, placed at the end of a question to mark it as such, and analogous to the derivation of <a href="/wiki/!" title="!"><span class="orth-brac">⟨</span><span class="orth-content">!</span><span class="orth-brac">⟩</span></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are no documented intermediary forms to support one theory over the other. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Punctuation_mark">Punctuation mark</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%3F&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Punctuation mark"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="None headword" lang="mul">?</strong> (<i>English name</i> <b class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/question_mark#English" title="question mark">question mark</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="use-with-mention"><span class="Latn" lang="en">Used in various left-to-right scripts, including notably the <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Latin_script" title="Appendix:Latin script">Latin script</a>, to mark the preceding sentence as a <a href="/wiki/question#English" title="question">question</a>.</span></span></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/comics" title="comics">comics</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a> <a href="/wiki/slang" title="slang">slang</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <span class="use-with-mention"><span class="Latn" lang="en">Used <a href="/wiki/by_oneself#English" title="by oneself">by itself</a> to convey that the speaker is <a href="/wiki/confused#English" title="confused">confused</a>.</span></span> <dl><dd>Character #1: "I have no time to explain! Have you seen a Big Bad Wolf blowing down various houses?"</dd> <dd>Character #2: "<b>?</b>"</dd></dl></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/linguistics" title="linguistics">linguistics</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> <span class="use-with-mention"><span class="Latn" lang="en">Marks the following word or phrase as questionable for a grammatical or semantic-pragmatic reason.</span></span> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2006</b></span>, Renaat Declerck, Susan Reed, Bert Cappelle, “The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase”, in <cite>The Grammar of the English Tense System</cite>, volume 1 (in English), <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9783110185898" title="Special:BookSources/9783110185898">→ISBN</a></small>, page 6:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">A superscript question mark will be used similarly to indicate that a sentence or constituent is questionable for a grammatical or semantic-pragmatic reason. A double superscript question mark indicates an even higher degree of questionability.<br />I have never { worked / <sup><b>?</b></sup>been working } on a dissertation<br />This time tomorrow I { will / <sup>??</sup>am going to } be driving to London.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="See_also">See also</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%3F&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>For the reversed question mark used in some right-to-left scripts, such as the Arabic script, see <i class="Zsym mention" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%D8%9F#Translingual" title="؟">؟</a></i>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Symbol">Symbol</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%3F&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Symbol"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Zsym headword" lang="mul">?</strong></span> </p> <ol><li>A <a href="/wiki/placeholder" title="placeholder">placeholder</a> for an unknown <a href="/wiki/word" title="word">word</a>, <a href="/wiki/phrase" title="phrase">phrase</a>, <a href="/wiki/text" title="text">text</a>, or numerical <a href="/wiki/value" title="value">value</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2009</b></span>, Terry Stickels, <cite>Math Puzzles and Brainteasers, Grades 3-5: Over 300 Puzzles that Teach Math and Problem-Solving Skills</cite> (in English), John Wiley & Sons, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780470564677" title="Special:BookSources/9780470564677">→ISBN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com.br/books?id=ceZaQbH2y4AC&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false">page 6</a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">What is the next number in the sequence below?<br />1    4    9    16    25    36    <u> <b>?</b> </u></span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/chess" title="chess">chess</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> Indicator of a <a href="/wiki/bad" title="bad">bad</a> move.</li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/programming#Noun" title="programming">programming</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> A <a href="/wiki/wildcard" title="wildcard">wildcard</a> for one <a href="/wiki/character" title="character">character</a> in <a href="/wiki/query_language" title="query language">query language</a>.</li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/programming#Noun" title="programming">programming</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> The <a href="/wiki/ternary_operator" title="ternary operator">ternary operator</a> in some programming languages.</li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/regular_expression" title="regular expression">regular expressions</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> Detects <a href="/wiki/zero" title="zero">zero</a> or <a href="/wiki/one" title="one">one</a> occurrences of the preceding element. <dl><dd><i>The string <code>colou?r</code> matches both "color" and "colour".</i></dd></dl></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/networking#Noun" title="networking">networking</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> In a <a href="/wiki/URL" title="URL">URL</a>, begins a <a href="/wiki/query_string" title="query string">query string</a> (a series of <a href="/wiki/data" title="data">data</a> formatted as field-value pairs). <dl><dd><i><a class="external text" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day&action=view&useskin=monobook"><code>https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php<b>?</b>title=Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day&action=view</code></a></i></dd></dl></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Usage_notes">Usage notes</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%3F&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Usage notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Its English name is variously <a href="/wiki/question_mark" title="question mark">question mark</a>, <a href="/wiki/interrogation_mark" title="interrogation mark">interrogation mark</a>, <a href="/wiki/interrogation_point" title="interrogation point">interrogation point</a>, <a href="/wiki/eroteme" title="eroteme">eroteme</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Quotations">Quotations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%3F&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="see-cites">For quotations using this term, see <a href="/wiki/Citations:%3F#Translingual" title="Citations:?">Citations:?</a>.</span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%3F&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/(%3F)#Translingual" title="(?)">(?)</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="See_also_2">See also</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%3F&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="None" lang="es"><a href="/wiki/%C2%BF_%3F#Spanish" title="¿ ?">¿ ?</a></span> (Spanish)</li> <li><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%3F%3F#Translingual" title="??">??</a></span></li> <li><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%3F!#Translingual" title="?!">?!</a></span></li> <li><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/!#Translingual" title="!">!</a></span></li> <li><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/!%3F#Translingual" title="!?">!?</a></span></li> <li><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%BD#Translingual" title="‽">‽</a></span></li> <li><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/!!#Translingual" title="!!">!!</a></span></li> <li><span class="Arab" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%D8%9F#Translingual" title="؟">؟</a></span> (Arabic/Persian)</li> <li><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%EF%BC%9F#Translingual" class="mw-redirect" title="？">？</a></span> (CJK)</li> <li><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/;#Translingual" title=";">;</a></span> (Greek)</li> <li><span class="Armn" lang="hy"><a href="#Armenian">՞</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="hy-Latn" class="tr Latn"><sup>?</sup></span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> (<a href="/wiki/Armenian" title="Armenian">Armenian</a>)</li> <li><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%B8%AE#Translingual" title="⸮">⸮</a></span></li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/punctuation" title="punctuation">Punctuation</a></b> </p> <div style="font-size:smaller"> <div class="columns-bg ul-column-count" data-column-count="5"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/apostrophe" title="apostrophe">apostrophe</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%27#Translingual" title="'">'</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%99#Translingual" title="’">’</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/curly_brackets" title="curly brackets">curly brackets</a> or <a href="/wiki/brace" title="brace">braces</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">US</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/%60lcub%60#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/`lcub`">{</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/%60rcub%60#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/`rcub`">}</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/square_bracket" title="square bracket">square brackets</a> or <a href="/wiki/bracket" title="bracket">brackets</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">US</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/%60lsqb%60#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/`lsqb`">[</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/%60rsqb%60#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/`rsqb`">]</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/colon" title="colon">colon</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="#Translingual">:</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/comma" title="comma">comma</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/,#Translingual" title=",">,</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/dash" title="dash">dashes</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%92#Translingual" title="‒">‒</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%93#Translingual" title="–">–</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%94#Translingual" title="—">—</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%95#Translingual" title="―">―</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ellipsis" title="ellipsis">ellipsis</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%A6#Translingual" title="…">…</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/exclamation_mark" title="exclamation mark">exclamation mark</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/!#Translingual" title="!">!</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/fraction_slash" title="fraction slash">fraction slash</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%81%84#Translingual" title="⁄">⁄</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/guillemet" title="guillemet">guillemets</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%C2%AB#Translingual" title="«">«</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%C2%BB#Translingual" title="»">»</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%B9#Translingual" title="‹">‹</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%BA#Translingual" title="›">›</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/hyphen" title="hyphen">hyphen</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/-#Translingual" title="-">-</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%90#Translingual" title="‐">‐</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/interpunct" title="interpunct">interpunct</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%C2%B7#Translingual" title="·">·</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/interrobang" title="interrobang">interrobang</a> <i><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">rare</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span></i> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%BD#Translingual" title="‽">‽</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/bracket" title="bracket">brackets</a> or <a href="/wiki/parenthesis" title="parenthesis">parentheses</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">US, Canada</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/(#Translingual" title="(">(</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/)#Translingual" title=")">)</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/full_stop" title="full stop">full stop</a> or <a href="/wiki/period" title="period">period</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">US, Canada</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/%60period%60#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/`period`">.</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/question_mark" title="question mark">question mark</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><strong class="selflink">?</strong></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/quotation_marks" title="quotation marks">quotation marks</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">formal</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%98#Translingual" title="‘">‘</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%99#Translingual" title="’">’</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%9A#Translingual" title="‚">‚</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%9C#Translingual" title="“">“</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%9D#Translingual" title="”">”</a></span> <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%E2%80%9E#Translingual" title="„">„</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/quotation_marks" title="quotation marks">quotation marks</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">informal<span class="ib-comma qualifier-comma">,</span> computing</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%22#Translingual" title=""">"</a></span></b> ) ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/%27#Translingual" title="'">'</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/semicolon" title="semicolon">semicolon</a> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/;#Translingual" title=";">;</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/slash" title="slash">slash</a> or <a href="/wiki/stroke" title="stroke">stroke</a> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">UK</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> ( <b><span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki//#Translingual" title="/">/</a></span></b> )</li> <li><a href="/wiki/space" title="space">space</a> ( <span class="None" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/Unsupported_titles/Space#Translingual" title="Unsupported titles/Space">] [</a></span> )</li></ul> </div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%3F&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text">Alexander Humez, 1987, <i>A B C et cetera: the life & times of the Roman alphabet</i></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="English">English</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%3F&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%3F&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="None headword" lang="en">?</strong> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/%3Fs#English" title="?s">?s</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/text_messaging" title="text messaging">text messaging</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> A <a href="/wiki/question" title="question">question</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example"><i class="Latn mention e-example" lang="en">i hav a <b>?</b> 4 u</i><dl><dd><span class="e-translation">I have a question for you</span></dd></dl></div></dd></dl></li> <li>objects seen/shaped as the <a href="/wiki/question_mark" title="question mark">question mark</a> <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example"><i class="Latn mention e-example" lang="en">a <b>?</b> block</i><dl><dd><span class="e-translation">a question-mark block</span></dd></dl></div></dd></dl></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adjective">Adjective</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%3F&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Adjective"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="None headword" lang="en">?</strong> (<i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#comparative" title="Appendix:Glossary">comparative</a></i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en comparative-form-of" lang="en">more <strong 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