Red question mark
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- Shortcode
:question:- Shortcode
:red_question_mark:- Unicode
U+2753- HTML
❓- CSS
\2753- JavaScript
"\u{2753}"- URL
%E2%9D%93
What ❓ means
A bold red question mark. It marks a question, confusion, or a demand for an answer.
On its own as a reply, ❓ means 'what?' or 'explain'. People also use it to flag an open question in notes or to chase a reply that has not come. A stack of ❓❓ reads as impatient.
Facts
Red question mark ❓ is an emoji in the symbols category, under punctuation. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :question: or :red_question_mark:. People also look for it with words like “?”, “mark”, “punctuation”, or “question”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.