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Question mark

The question mark ? (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.

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query, eroteme, interrogation point

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Percontation point

Typological variants of ?

Unicode

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Medicine

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Question mark

Nodes153
Edges152
Triples147
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013072
Components1

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Question mark

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related to Mirrored question mark in right-to-left scripts · 20
Question mark → Adlam, ADLAM INITIAL QUESTION MARK, AL, Arabic, ARABIC QUESTION MARK, Dhivehi, In Arabic, In Unicode, Latin, N'Ko, No, Other Neutrals, Persian, REVERSED QUESTION MARK, Right-to-Left Arabic, Some, Syriac, The Arabic, Urdu, Uyghur
related to Unicode · 16
Question mark → ARABIC QUESTION MARKU, ASCII, BLACK QUESTION MARK ORNAMENTU, DOUBLE QUESTION MARKU, EXCLAMATION QUESTION MARK, FE56, HEAVY INTERROBANG ORNAMENTU, HEAVY SANS-SERIF INTERROBANG ORNAMENT, INTERROBANGU, INVERTED INTERROBANGU, INVERTED QUESTION MARK, QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARKU, REVERSED QUESTION MARKU, SANS-SERIF INTERROBANG ORNAMENTU, SMALL QUESTION MARKU, WHITE QUESTION MARK ORNAMENTU
related to External links · 12
Question mark → Archived, Capital Community College Foundation, Connecticut, December, Grammar, Guide, Hartford, Provides, Retrieved, September, The Question Mark, Writing
related to Fullwidth question mark in East Asian languages · 12
Question mark → Chinese, FF1F, Fullwidth, FULLWIDTH QUESTION MARK, In Korean, It, Japanese, The, Therefore, Unicode, Usually, Where
related to history · 11
Question mark → Bilderdijk, Chip Coakley, Egyptian, Egyptians, However, In, Latin, One, Quæstio, Syriac Bible, The
see also · 10
Question mark → Betteridge's, Combined, English, High, Inquiry, Intonation, Journalistic, Marks, Proposed, Type
related to Greek question mark · 8
Question mark → Church Slavonic, Greek, GREEK QUESTION MARK, In Unicode, It, Latin, SEMICOLON, The Greek
related to In other scripts · 8
Question mark → A60F, COPTIC OLD NUBIAN DIRECT, COPTIC OLD NUBIAN INDIRECT, ETHIOPIC QUESTION MARKU, LIMBU QUESTION MARK, QUESTION MARKU, Some, VAI QUESTION MARKU
related to Percontation point · 6
Question mark → Henry Denham, It, Its, REVERSED QUESTION MARK, This, Unicode
related to French spacing · 5
Question mark → English, French, However, Que, What

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question mark used also marks unicode point one symbol may character form languages interrogation use sentence english punctuation indicates query

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Question markOther namesquery, eroteme, interrogation point1.00infobox
Question markis adiacritic that takes the form of an open circle and is placed over the stressed vowel of the question word0.90text
abbreviationsinstance ofone of many wavy or more or less slanted marks used in medieval texts for denoting things0.80text
which would later become various diacritics or ligaturesinstance ofone of many wavy or more or less slanted marks used in medieval texts for denoting things0.80text
Persianinstance ofmaking the marks identical in practice.Mirrored question mark in right-to-left scriptsIn Arabic and other languages that use Arabic script0.80text
Urduinstance ofmaking the marks identical in practice.Mirrored question mark in right-to-left scriptsIn Arabic and other languages that use Arabic script0.80text
Uyghurinstance ofmaking the marks identical in practice.Mirrored question mark in right-to-left scriptsIn Arabic and other languages that use Arabic script0.80text
Persianinstance ofMirrored question mark in right-to-left scriptsIn Arabic and other languages that use Arabic script0.80text
Urduinstance ofMirrored question mark in right-to-left scriptsIn Arabic and other languages that use Arabic script0.80text
Uyghurinstance ofMirrored question mark in right-to-left scriptsIn Arabic and other languages that use Arabic script0.80text
closed captioning.The question mark can also be used as a meta-sign to signal uncertainty regarding what precedes itinstance ofin informal contexts0.80text
Question markrelated to Armenian question markIn Armenian0.60section

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