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U+00A1 CHARACTER

INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK

Quick Facts

Unicode Name INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
Code Point U+00A1
Decimal Value 161
General Category Other Punctuation (Po) →
Unicode Block Latin-1 Supplement →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes C2 A1
UTF-16 Code Unit 00A1
UTF-32 4 bytes 000000A1
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 A1 LE: A1 00
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 00 A1 LE: A1 00 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ¡
HTML Hexadecimal ¡
HTML Named Entity ¡
CSS Escape \0000A1
JavaScript (ES6) \u00A1
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u00A1
JSON Escape \u00A1
Python \u00A1
PHP "\u{A1}"
Java "\u00A1"
C / C++ "\u00A1"
Rust '\u{a1}'
URL Percent-Encoded %C2%A1

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+00A1 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
¡
Context: A ¡ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
¡
Context: A ¡ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
¡
Context: A ¡ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
¡
Context: A ¡ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+00A1

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