question mark

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English

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question mark in a grey ring

Noun

question mark ‎(plural question marks)

1. (typography) The punctuation mark ⟨?⟩, used at the end of a sentence to indicate a question.
2. (figuratively, informal) 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”, in BBC Sport^[1]:

     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.

Synonyms

• (punctuation mark): interrogation mark, interrogation point; eroteme; interrogative (archaic); interrogative-point (obsolete)

See also

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) braces ( { } ) brackets ( [ ] ) colon ( : ) comma ( , )

dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) exclamation mark ( ! ) fraction slash ( ⁄ ) guillemets ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interpunct ( · ) interrobang (rare) ( ‽ ) parentheses ( ( ) ) period (US) or full stop (UK) ( . )

question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal, UK) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, US, Computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; ) slash (US) or stroke (UK) ( / ) space (   )

Translations

punctuation

• Albanian: pikëpyetje (sq) f
• Arabic: ؟ ‎(?), عَلَامَة اِسْتِفْهَام f ‎(ʿalāmat istifhām), عَلَامَة سُؤَال f ‎(ʿalāmat suʾāl)
• Armenian:  ՞, հարցական նշան ‎(harcʿakan nšan)
• Bengali: জিজ্ঞাসাচিহ্ন ‎(jiggasacihn)
• Breton: pik-goulennata m
• Burmese: (symbol) း။ ‎(:||)
• Catalan: interrogant (ca), signe d'interrogació m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ？, 問號 (zh), 问号 (zh) ‎(wènhào)

• Cornish: nos kwestyon m
• Crimean Tatar: sual işareti
• Czech: otazník (cs) m
• Danish: spørgsmålstegn (da) n
• Dutch: vraagteken (nl) n
• Esperanto: demandosigno
• Finnish: kysymysmerkki (fi)
• French: point d'interrogation (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Fragezeichen (de) n
• Greek: ; (el) ‎(?), ερωτηματικό (el) n ‎(erotimatikó)
• Hindi: प्रश्नचिह्न ‎(praśnacihna)
• Hungarian: kérdőjel (hu)
• Icelandic: spurningarmerki n
• Irish: comhartha ceiste m
• Italian: punto interrogativo (it) m, punto di domanda m
• Japanese: ？ (ja), 疑問符 (ja) ‎(ぎもんふ, gimonfu)
• Kalmyk: сургч темдг ‎(surgç temdg)
• Khakas: сурығ танығы ‎(surığ tanığı)
• Khmer: ល្បះសំនួរ ‎(lbah sɑmnuə)
• Korean: ？, 물음표 (ko) ‎(mureumpyo)

• Latvian: jautājuma zīme f
• Lithuanian: klaustukas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Froenzeechen n
• Macedonian: пра́шалник m ‎(prášalnik)
• Malay: tanda soal
• Maori: tohu pātai
• Norman: point d'tchestchionn'nie m (Jersey), mèrque dé tchestchion f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: spørsmålstegn n
• Pashto: ؟
• Persian: ؟
• Polish: pytajnik m, znak zapytania (pl) m
• Portuguese: ponto de interrogação (pt) m
• Romanian: semn de întrebare
• Russian: вопроси́тельный знак (ru) m ‎(voprosítelʹnyj znak), знак вопро́са (ru) m ‎(znak voprósa)
• Scottish Gaelic: comharradh-ceiste m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: упитник m

  Roman: ùpitnīk (sh) m

• Slovene: vprašaj (sl) m
• Southern Altai: суракту темдек ‎(suraktu temdek)
• Spanish: signo de interrogación m
• Swedish: frågetecken (sv) n
• Turkish: soru işareti (tr)
• Udmurt: юан пус ‎(juan pus)
• Urdu: ؟
• Volapük: säkamalül (vo)
• Welsh: gofynnod m, holnod m, marc cwestiwn m
• Yakut: ыйытыы бэлиэтэ ‎(ıyıtıı beliete)
• Yiddish: פֿרעגצייכן m ‎(fregtseykhn)