How to Type Upside Down Question Mark(Spanish Question Mark) on Mac?

If you're learning Spanish or need to communicate in Spanish, you likely need to type the upside-down question mark on Mac. While you may be familiar with the ways to type a question mark on Mac, by pressing the Shift key and holding the ?/ button on the keyboard, you probably aren't clear about how to do an upside down question mark on Mac.

So, in this post, we'll explain 3 ways to get an upside-down question mark on Mac.

What is an upside-down question mark?

An upside-down question mark, also known as an inverted question mark or a Spanish question mark, is a punctuation mark used in Spanish and other languages influenced by Spanish, such as Galician and Catalan, to indicate the beginning of an interrogative sentence.

Here's an example of its usage:

Spanish: ¿Qué hora es? (The upside-down question mark is used at the beginning of a question as a visual clue for readers to recognize the interrogative nature of the sentence.)

English: What time is it?

That said, you'll need to know how to make an upside-down question mark as long as you want to write questions in Spanish.

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How to do upside down question mark on Mac?

Typing a Spanish question mark on Mac is straightforward. Here are three ways to do it.

① Use hotkeys for upside-down question mark on Mac and Windows

How to do an upside-down question mark on Mac:

Make an upside-down question mark on an English keyboard:

To type an upside-down question mark on a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or desktop Mac, simply press the hotkeys: Option + Shift + ?. Yes, it's the same as typing a normal question mark, except that it also needs the Option key hold down.

Put an inverted question mark on a Spanish keyboard:

If you've set the keyboard on your Mac to a Spanish layout, you'll need to use the hotkeys Shift and + simultaneously to register a Spanish question mark on Mac.

How to do an upside-down question mark on Windows:

To get an upside-down question mark on Windows, use Ctrl + Alt + Shift + ?.

② Use Character Viewer

Apart from using the keyboard, you can also type an inverted question mark on Mac with Character Viewer. To do this:

If you can't see the Input menu, take the steps below to set it up:

On macOS Ventura and later:

On macOS Monterey and earlier:

③ Copy and paste ¿

If your keyboard isn't working or you'd rather use an easier method, you can copy the inverted question mark from here ¿ and then paste it at places it's needed.

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