Exclamation Mark !

U+0021

Symbol Meaning

Exclamation mark indicates emphasis on some important or emotionally charged information. According to one theory, the current form of this symbol has come from the Latin exclamation which meant joy (io — hooray). “I” began to be written below “o”, and later the image became less sophisticated.

This mark is usually put at the end of a sentence. However, in the Russian language you may come across it in the middle of a sentence. It can be put in brackets (which means something like “attention!” or “I'll be damned”). Ih this case, the emotional emphasis applies only to some part of the sentence — a specific word or phrase.

You can find more Exclamation marks here: ‽ ⸘ ﹗

Other similar characters:

¡ Spanish, known as the “Inverted Exclamation Mark”. Used at the beginning of a sentence.

՜ Armenian “Yerkaratsman nshan”.

߹ N'Ko script.

᥄ Limbu script.

The symbol “Exclamation Mark” is included in the “ASCII punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

This text is also available in: Русский;

Synonyms

Factorial, Bang.

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Unicode Name	Exclamation Mark
Unicode Number
Entity	&excl;
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Basic Latin
Unicode Subblock	ASCII punctuation and symbols
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Alt Code	Alt 33

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	0021
Simple case change	0021
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Terminal_Punctuation	+
Sentence_Terminal	+
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	21	33	33	00100001
UTF-16BE	00 21	0 33	33	00000000 00100001
UTF-16LE	21 00	33 0	8448	00100001 00000000
UTF-32BE	00 00 00 21	0 0 0 33	33	00000000 00000000 00000000 00100001
UTF-32LE	21 00 00 00	33 0 0 0	553648128	00100001 00000000 00000000 00000000