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PRHere are some rare punctuation marks that exist but are not used regularly in everyday writing:
Interrobang (‽)
Combines a question mark and exclamation mark. Used for surprised questions.
Example: You did what‽
Inverted interrobang (⸘)
The upside-down version, very uncommon.
Pilcrow (¶)
Paragraph mark. Mostly used in editing, proofreading, and legal references.
Section sign (§)
Used for sections in legal and technical documents.
Example: See § 4.2
Dagger (†) and double dagger (‡)
Used for footnotes when asterisks are already used.
Asterism (⁂)
Three asterisks arranged in a triangle. Used as a section break in older texts.
Caret (‸)
An editing mark showing where something should be inserted.
Obelus (÷)
Division sign. Common in math, but rare in normal prose.
Percontation point (⸮)
An old punctuation mark for rhetorical questions.
Irony mark (⸮ or other historical forms)
Various proposed marks for irony or sarcasm, but none became standard.
Tironian et (⁊)
An old shorthand symbol meaning “and,” used in medieval manuscripts and sometimes in Irish contexts.
Manicule (☞)
A pointing hand used in old texts to draw attention to something.
Suspension points in special forms (…)
The ellipsis is common, but older texts sometimes used spaced or stylized variants.
Guillemet variants (‹ › « »)
Not rare in some languages, but uncommon in English outside typography or foreign-language texts.
Reference mark (※)
Used in some East Asian typography and notes.
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