Punto esclamativo !

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.

Il simbolo «Punto esclamativo» è incluso nel sotto-blocco ««Punteggiatura e simboli ASCII»» del blocco «Latino di base» ed è stato approvato come parte della versione Unicode 1.1 nel 1993.