question mark

question mark in a grey ring

See also question-mark

English

Noun

question mark (plural question marks)

1. The punctuation mark “?”, used at the end of a sentence to indicate a question.
2. (idiomatic) doubt or uncertainty

   There’s a question mark over whether or not he’ll be fit for the next game.

   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, BBC Sport:

     Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.

Translations

punctuation

• Albanian: pikëpyetje (sq)
• Arabic: ؟ (ar), علامة استفهام (ar) (`alaamat istifhaam) f, علامة سؤال (ar) (`alaamat su'aal) f
• Armenian:  ՞
• Burmese: (symbol) း။ (my)
• Catalan: interrogant (ca), signe d'interrogació (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ？ (cmn), 問號 (cmn), 问号 (cmn) (wènhào)

• Czech: otazník (cs) m
• Danish: spørgsmålstegn (da) n
• Dutch: vraagteken (nl) n
• Esperanto: demandosigno (eo)
• Finnish: kysymysmerkki (fi)
• French: point d'interrogation (fr) m
• German: Fragezeichen (de) n
• Greek: ; (el) (

), ερωτηματικό (el) (erotimatikó) n

• Hungarian: kérdőjel (hu)
• Italian: punto interrogativo (it) m
• Japanese: ？ (ja), 疑問符 (ja) (ぎもんふ, gimonfu)
• Jèrriais: point d'tchestchionn'nie m, mèrque dé tchestchion f
• Khmer: ល្បះសំនួរ (km) (lbah sɑmnuə)

• Korean: ？ (ko)
• Lithuanian: klaustukas (lt)
• Macedonian: прашалник (mk) (prášalnik) m
• Malay: tanda soal (ms)
• Norwegian: spørsmålstegn (no) n
• Pashto: ؟ (ps)
• Persian: ؟ (fa)
• Polish: pytajnik (pl) m, znak zapytania (pl) m
• Portuguese: ponto de interrogação (pt) m
• Russian: вопросительный знак (ru) (voprosítel'nyj znak) m, знак вопроса (ru) (znak voprósa) m
• Scottish Gaelic: comharradh-ceiste (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: упитник (sh) m

  Roman: ùpitnīk (sh) m

• Slovene: vprašaj (sl) m
• Spanish: signo de interrogación (es) m
• Swedish: frågetecken (sv) n
• Turkish: soru işareti (tr)
• Urdu: ؟ (ur)

Synonyms

• interrogation point
• eroteme

See also

• Question mark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) braces (publishing, music, programming) ( { } ) brackets (publishing, programming) ( [ ] ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop (British) or period (North America) ( . ) guillemets (publishing) ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interpunct (publishing, web design) ( · ) interrobang (rare) ( ‽ ) parentheses ( ( ) )

question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal, British) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, North America, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; ) slash ( / ) solidus (dated, mathematics) ( ⁄ ) space (   )