answers: to begin interrogative
context: the swung dash (⁓) are used in dictionaries to indicate the omission of the entry word. This symbol (in English) informally means "approximately", "about", or "around", such as "~30 minutes before", meaning ""approximately" 30 minutes before". It can mean "similar to", including "of the same order of magnitude as", such as: "" meaning that and are of the same order of magnitude. Another approximation symbol is the double-tilde ≈, meaning "approximately equal to", the critical difference being the subjective level of accuracy: ≈ indicates a value which can be considered functionally equivalent for a calculation within an acceptable degree of </s> Inverted question and exclamation marks Inverted question marks (¿) and exclamation marks (Commonwealth English) or exclamation points (American English) (¡) are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences (or clauses), respectively, in written Spanish and sometimes also in languages which have cultural ties with Spanish, such as in older standards of Galician (now it is optional and not recommended) and the Waray language. They can also be combined in several ways to express the combination of a question and surprise or disbelief. The initial marks are normally mirrored at the end of the sentence or clause by the </s> written Spanish—e.g. ("How old are you?"). The Real Academia also ordered the same inverted-symbol system for statements of exclamation, using the symbols "¡" and "!". This helps to recognize questions and exclamations in long sentences. "Do you like summer?" and "You like summer." are translated respectively as and (There is not always a difference between the wording of a yes–no question and the corresponding statement in Spanish.) These new rules were slowly adopted; there exist 19th-century books in which the writer uses neither "¡" nor "¿". In sentences that are both declarative and interrogative, the clause that asks a question
question: what does an upside question mark mean in spanish