Heavy Exclamation Mark Ornament ❢
Symbol Meaning
Exclamation marks had been helping people to express their emotions in writing even before emojis had appeared. Needless to say, this means of punctuation was really good at its job. The mark was implemented in typography back in the 15th century, and since then it's been widely used to convey astonishment, surprise, excitement, indignation and other strong feelings.
Heavy exclamation mark has an unusual description. In terms of size, its upper part doesn't exceed the lower dot and has a drop-like shape significantly narrowing closer to the bottom. If you need a more familiar exclamation mark, the appearance of which you're accustomed with, check out the classic typographical symbol ! or a smaller symbol with a rectangular upper part ﹗ .
The symbol “Heavy Exclamation Mark Ornament” is included in the “Punctuation mark ornaments” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Heavy Exclamation Mark Ornament |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Punctuation mark ornaments |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2762 |
| Simple case change | 2762 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D A2 | 226 157 162 | 14851490 | 11100010 10011101 10100010 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 62 | 39 98 | 10082 | 00100111 01100010 |
| UTF-16LE | 62 27 | 98 39 | 25127 | 01100010 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 62 | 0 0 39 98 | 10082 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01100010 |
| UTF-32LE | 62 27 00 00 | 98 39 0 0 | 1646723072 | 01100010 00100111 00000000 00000000 |