White question mark
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- Shortcode
:grey_question:- Shortcode
:white_question_mark:- Unicode
U+2754- HTML
❔- CSS
\2754- JavaScript
"\u{2754}"- URL
%E2%9D%94
What ❔ means
A pale, outlined question mark. It asks a question in a lighter, softer way than ❓.
People pick ❔ for gentle curiosity or a small doubt rather than real confusion. It fits quiz posts, 'any guesses❔', and design-minded chats where the red version feels too loud.
Facts
White 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 :grey_question: or :white_question_mark:. People also look for it with words like “?”, “mark”, “outlined”, or “punctuation”.
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.