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⁉️ Exclamation Question Mark Emoji

The ⁉️ Exclamation Question Mark emoji depicts an exclamation point next to a question mark, commonly used for shocked questioning, disbelief, or interrobang reactions.

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Official name
Exclamation Question Mark
Category
Symbols
Subcategory
Punctuation
Unicode
U+2049 U+FE0F
Emoji version
0.6
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The ⁉️ Exclamation Question Mark emoji expresses astonished questioning, shock combined with confusion, or incredulous disbelief (e.g., 'What?!' or 'Are you serious?!').

Quick Meaning

The ⁉️ Exclamation Question Mark emoji depicts an exclamation point next to a question mark, commonly used for shocked questioning, disbelief, or interrobang reactions.

Use Cases

How People Use ⁉️

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Expressing shocked or disbelief-filled questions

Expressing shocked or disbelief-filled questions.

Reacting to surprising news with confusion

Reacting to surprising news with confusion.

Messaging 'What?!' or 'How is that possible?!'

Messaging 'What?!' or 'How is that possible?!'.

Real Messages

⁉️ Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for ⁉️.

“You bought tickets without telling me ⁉️”

“How did that happen ⁉️”

“What in the world ⁉️”

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Lookup Data

Names, Keywords and Search Terms

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Official Name

Exclamation Question Mark

Subcategory: Punctuation

Aliases & Common Names

  • exclamation question
  • interrobang
  • shocked question

Keywords & Search Terms

  • exclamation question mark
  • interrobang
  • what
  • shock
  • confused
  • question
  • exclamation
  • punctuation
Developer Reference

⁉️ Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+2049 U+FE0F
Code points
U+2049 U+FE0F
UTF-8 bytes
0xE2 0x81 0x89 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-16
\u2049\uFE0F
HTML decimal entity
⁉️
HTML hexadecimal entity
⁉️
JavaScript escape
\u{2049}\u{FE0F}
CSS escape
\2049 \FE0F
Python string
\u2049\uFE0F
Unicode Breakdown

Sequence Breakdown for ⁉️

This emoji is composed of 2 Unicode characters joined together.

Step 1
⁉
U+2049Exclamation Question Mark
+
Step 2
VS16
U+FE0FVariation Selector-16 (Emoji Presentation)
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Microsoft Fluent

MIT License
Exclamation Question Mark emoji in Microsoft Fluent style

Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
Exclamation Question Mark emoji in Google Noto style

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Exclamation Question Mark emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Exclamation Question Mark emoji in OpenMoji style

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The ⁉️ Exclamation Question Mark emoji depicts an exclamation point next to a question mark, commonly used for shocked questioning, disbelief, or interrobang reactions.