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Inverted Exclamation Mark

Unicode U+00A1 · Category: Latin-1 Supplement
Character¡
NameInverted Exclamation Mark
Unicode Code PointU+00A1
Decimal Value161
Hex Value0x00A1
CategoryLatin-1 Supplement
Windows Alt CodeAlt+0161
Word Alt+X Code00A1 + Alt+X
Mac ShortcutNot available — use copy/paste
HTML Entity¡
HTML Code (Dec / Hex)¡ / ¡
CSS Content Codecontent: "\00A1";
JavaScript Unicode Escape"\u{00A1}"

About Inverted Exclamation Mark

Inverted Exclamation Mark is part of the Latin-1 Supplement block, primarily used for Western European languages (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and others) that need accented letters or region-specific punctuation beyond plain ASCII.

Unicode block: Latin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF). This block extends ASCII with accented Latin letters, currency signs, and legal symbols. It maps directly onto ISO 8859-1 ("Latin-1"), the dominant Western-European text encoding of the 1990s, which is why Windows Alt codes for this range still work today.

At Unicode code point U+00A1 (decimal 161), Inverted Exclamation Mark is the 1st of 95 characters cataloged in this category on How To Type Any Symbol. In terms of typing methods, it has a documented Windows Alt code, though no dedicated single-key Mac shortcut — Mac users generally rely on copy-paste for it. Regardless of platform, clicking the copy button above places the exact character on your clipboard, ready to paste into any application that accepts Unicode text.

💡 Good to know: Because this block maps to Windows-1252, the classic Alt+0xxx numpad trick (using the leading zero) reliably reproduces it — that's the exact method shown in the table above.

How to Type Inverted Exclamation Mark

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Windows

Hold Alt and type 0161 on the numeric keypad.

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Mac

No dedicated shortcut — click the copy button above and paste with Cmd+V.

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Copy & Paste

Click the symbol above to copy it, then paste anywhere — works on every device and OS.

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Web / HTML

Use the entity ¡ in your HTML.

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