Every special Spanish character in one place — the ñ, all the accented vowels in both cases, the ü with diaeresis, and the inverted punctuation marks ¿ and ¡ that no English keyboard offers. Click any character to copy it instantly.
The ñ is a full letter of the Spanish alphabet, not an accented n. The inverted marks ¿ and ¡ open questions and exclamations: ¿Cómo estás? ¡Hola!
Acute accents mark stress — sí, café, música — and distinguish word pairs like el/él and tu/tú. The ü appears only in güe and güi, where it shows the u is pronounced.
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The ñ is the emblem of Spanish and a letter in its own right — it has held its own place in the alphabet, sorted after n, since the Real Academia Española's dictionary of 1803. It began as a medieval scribal shortcut, a small n written above another to abbreviate the double n in words like anno, which became año. The tilde is not optional decoration: cana (grey hair) and caña (reed) are different words, and Spanish surnames like Muñoz, Peña, and Núñez simply are not spelled correctly without it. In Unicode, ñ (U+00F1) and Ñ (U+00D1) are single precomposed characters from the Latin-1 Supplement block.
Spanish is the only major language that brackets questions and exclamations from both ends. The inverted marks ¿ and ¡, prescribed by the Real Academia since 1754, open the sentence that the ordinary ? and ! close: ¿Dónde está la biblioteca? ¡Qué sorpresa! They sit at the start of the actual question, not necessarily of the whole sentence — Si vas al cine, ¿me avisas? Because English keyboards omit them entirely, the opening marks are among the most copied Spanish characters, whether for homework, formal writing, or messages that should read as properly punctuated Spanish.
The acute accents on á, é, í, ó, and ú mark irregular stress — teléfono, música, corazón — and split otherwise identical words apart: el (the) versus él (he), tu (your) versus tú (you), si (if) versus sí (yes). The diaeresis on ü has a different job: in güe and güi the mark tells you the u is pronounced, separating pingüino and vergüenza from silent-u words like guerra. All of these characters live in the Latin-1 Supplement block, so they paste cleanly into essays, forms, spreadsheets, bios, and messages on every modern platform and device.
Yes — in Spanish, ñ is the fifteenth letter of the alphabet, with its own name (eñe) and its own dictionary section after n. Words and names change meaning without it: caña and cana are different words. Unicode encodes it as a single character, U+00F1, so when you copy it from this page it behaves as one letter everywhere.
Yes. All the characters here are standard Unicode from the Latin-1 Supplement block, which every modern platform renders correctly — Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, Discord, X, and email clients included, in bios, captions, comments, and display names. A few services restrict account handles to plain ASCII, where ñ pastes fine but may be rejected when you save.
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0191 on the numeric keypad for ¿, or Alt+0161 for ¡. On a Mac, press Option+Shift+? and Option+1. On phones, long-press the ? or ! key. If you type Spanish often, our Spanish alt codes page lists every shortcut, and the online Spanish keyboard puts both marks one click away.
In gue and gui the u is normally silent — guerra sounds like "gerra". The diaeresis on ü overrides that: in pingüino, vergüenza, and bilingüe the u is fully pronounced. It only ever appears in the combinations güe and güi, making it the rarest Spanish diacritic — and one autocorrect loves to strip, which is why people copy it from pages like this.
Use the free online Spanish keyboard linked below — it reproduces the Spanish layout in your browser with ñ on its own key, dead keys for the acute accents, and ¿ ¡ within reach, nothing to install. It is much faster than copy-paste once you are writing more than a few words, and it works on any device.