Red Question Mark Emoji
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What does the Red Question Mark emoji mean?
1
A bold red question mark, well suited to highlighting a question or prompting help.
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The question mark is shown in red (sometimes black). It signals that a remark needs clarification — the speaker wants to ask a follow-up question or get a clearer understanding of what’s being discussed.
It’s commonly used in everyday conversation to clarify information. The exclamation mark ❗, by contrast, indicates a rising pitch.
Apple Name
- ❓ Red Question Mark
Unicode Name
- ❓ Black Question Mark Ornament
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Red Question Mark emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
❓ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+2753
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%9D%93 |
| Punycode | xn--8di |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 9D 93 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u2753 |
| C, C++, Python | \u2753 |
| CSS | \2753 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{2753} |
| Perl | \x{2753} |
| HTML hex | ❓ |
| HTML dec | ❓ |
Tags: ?, mark, punctuation, question, red question mark, red
Category: Symbols
Subgroup: Punctuation