?

Character	?
Unicode name	QUESTION MARK
Codepoint	U+003F
> ← Basic Latin → @

See also Appendix:Variations of "?"

Translingual

Etymology

? may derive from Qo, with the Q written over the o, an abbreviation of Latin quaestio (“question”), placed at the end of a question to mark it as such.

Punctuation mark

?

1. Marks a preceding passage written in Latin script as a question.
   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 46:

     Olho-Tonto, você sabe que isso é nojento, não sabe?

     Mad-Eye, you know that this is disgusting, don't you?

2. (chess) In algebraic notation, marks a bad move.

Derived terms

• ﹖ (small form variant)

See also

• ¿ (Spanish)
• ??
• ?!
• !
• !?
• ‽
• !!
• ؟ (Arabic/Persian)
• ？ (CJK)
• ; (Greek)
• ՞ (Armenian)

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) braces (publishing, music, programming) ( { } ) brackets (publishing, programming) ( [ ] ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop (British) or period (North America) ( . ) guillemets (publishing) ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interpunct (publishing, web design) ( · ) interrobang (rare) ( ‽ ) parentheses ( ( ) )

question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal, British) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, North America, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; ) slash ( / ) solidus (dated, mathematics) ( ⁄ ) space (   )

Translations

a mistake in chess

• Russian: ?, плохой ход, ошибка

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English

Noun

? (plural ?s)

1. (text messaging) A question.

   i hav a ? 4 u (I have a question for you)