question mark

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English

Noun

question mark (plural question marks)

1. The punctuation mark “?”, used at the end of a sentence to indicate a question.
2. (idiomatic) doubt or uncertainty

   There’s a question mark over whether or not he’ll be fit for the next game.

   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, BBC Sport:

     Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.

Translations

punctuation

Albanian: pikëpyetje (sq) Arabic: ؟ (ar), علامة استفهام (ar) (`alaamat istifhaam) f., علامة سؤال (ar) (`alaamat su'aal) f. Armenian:  ՞ Bosnian: upitnik (bs) m. Burmese: (symbol) း။ (my) Catalan: interrogant (ca), signe d'interrogació (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: ？ (cmn), 問號 (cmn), 问号 (cmn) (wènhào) Croatian: ùpitnīk (hr) m. Czech: otazník (cs) m. Dutch: vraagteken (nl) n. Esperanto: demandosigno (eo) Finnish: kysymysmerkki (fi) French: point d'interrogation (fr) m. German: Fragezeichen (de) n. Greek: ; (el), ερωτηματικό (el) (erotimatikó) n. Hungarian: kérdőjel (hu) Italian: punto interrogativo (it) m. Japanese: ？ (ja), 疑問符 (ja) (ぎもんふ, gimonfu) Khmer: ល្បះសំនួរ (km) (lbah sɑmnuə)

Korean: ？ (ko) Lithuanian: klaustukas (lt) Macedonian: прашалник (mk) (prášalnik) m. Malay: tanda soal (ms) Norwegian: spørsmålstegn (no) n. Pashto: ؟ (ps) Persian: ؟ (fa) Polish: pytajnik (pl) m., znak zapytania (pl) m. Portuguese: ponto de interrogação (pt) m. Russian: вопросительный знак (ru) (voprosítel'nyj znak) m., знак вопроса (ru) (znak voprósa) m. Scottish Gaelic: comharradh-ceiste (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: упитник (sr) m. Roman: upitnik (sr) m. Slovene: vprašaj (sl) m. Spanish: signo de interrogación (es) m., ¿ (es), ? (es) Swedish: frågetecken (sv) n. Turkish: soru işareti (tr) Urdu: ؟ (ur)

Synonyms

• interrogation point
• eroteme

See also

• Question mark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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 (   )