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The rhetorical question mark or percontation point (see Irony punctuation) was invented by Henry Denham in the 1580s and was used at the end of a rhetorical question; [ 24] however, it became obsolete in the 17th century. It was the reverse of an ordinary question mark, so that instead of the main opening pointing back into the sentence, it ...
On macOS, it is found on the Character Palette, obtained by pressing the key combination Ctrl + ⌘ Cmd + Space . The interrobang can be inserted in HTML with ‽ . The interrobang can be displayed in LaTeX by using the package textcomp and the command \textinterrobang. The inverted interrobang is the command \textinterrobangdown .
Specials is a short Unicode block of characters allocated at the very end of the Basic Multilingual Plane, at U+FFF0–FFFF. Of these 16 code points, five have been assigned since Unicode 3.0: U+FFF9 INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR, marks start of annotated text. U+FFFA INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION SEPARATOR, marks start of annotating character (s)
Chess annotation symbols. When annotating chess games, commentators frequently use widely recognized annotation symbols. Question marks and exclamation points that denote a move as bad or good are ubiquitous in chess literature. [ 1] Some publications intended for an international audience, such as the Chess Informant, have a wide range of ...
A different, but related, use of the term "emoticon" is found in the Unicode Standard, referring to a subset of emoji that display facial expressions. [74] The standard explains this usage with reference to existing systems, which provided functionality for substituting certain textual emoticons with images or emoji of the expressions in ...
This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as ...
An x mark marking the spot of the wrecked Whydah Gally in Cape Cod. An X mark (also known as an ex mark or a cross mark or simply an X or ex or a cross) is used to indicate the concept of negation (for example "no, this has not been verified", "no, that is not the correct answer" or "no, I do not agree") as well as an indicator (for example, in election ballot papers or in maps as an x-marks ...
The upside-down (also inverted, turned or rotated) question mark ¿ and exclamation mark ¡ are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences or clauses in Spanish and some languages that have cultural ties with Spain, such as Asturian and Waray. [ 1] The initial marks are mirrored at the end of the sentence or clause ...