U+00A1 INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK

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Decimal / Nº
161
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+00A1, officially named INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Latin 1 Sup block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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161 Copied!
UTF-8 C2 A1 Copied!
UTF-16 00 A1 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 00 A1 Copied!
URL-Quoted %C2%A1 Copied!
HTML hex reference ¡ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'00A1' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u00A1 Copied!
C and C++ \u00a1 Copied!
C# \u00a1 Copied!
CSS \0000A1 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(161) Copied!
Go \u00a1 Copied!
JavaScript \u00A1 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{00a1} Copied!
JSON \u00A1 Copied!
Java \u00A1 Copied!
Lua \u{00A1} Copied!
Matlab char(161) Copied!
Perl \x{00A1} Copied!
PHP \u{00a1} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\00A1' Copied!
PowerShell `u{00A1} Copied!
Python \u00a1 Copied!
Ruby \u{00a1} Copied!
Rust \u{00a1} Copied!