U+203C Double Exclamation Mark
U+203C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block General Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs Exclamation Mark, Exclamation Mark. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. It can end sentences at appropriate places. U+203C prohibits line breaks before its position. There might be some exceptions, though. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “double exclamation mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: !, !!, bangbang, double, exclamation, mark, punctuation.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ‼️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
‼ (a double exclamation mark, Unicode character U+203C) may refer to:
- !! (chess), a brilliant move in chess annotation
- Double factorial, an operator in mathematics
- Retroflex click, a family of click consonants found only in Juu and Namibian languages, and in the Damin ritual jargon
- Double-negation translation, !!p = p.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8252 |
| UTF-8 | E2 80 BC |
| UTF-16 | 20 3C |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 3C |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%80%BC |
| HTML hex reference | ‼ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ‼ |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A8 EB |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A8 EB |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 A8 30 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 28 6B 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 28 6B 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 84 E9 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 84 E9 |
| AGL: Latin-5 | exclamdbl |
| Adobe Glyph List | exclamdbl |
| digraph | !*2 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK | |
| — | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| compatibility | |
| Exclamation Mark Exclamation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Exclamation Mark | |
| Double Exclamation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Exclamation Mark | |
| Double Exclamation Mark | |
| Double Exclamation Mark | |
| Double Exclamation Mark | |
| Double Exclamation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Double Exclamation Mark | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Exclamation Mark Exclamation Mark | |
| No | |
| Exclamation Mark Exclamation Mark | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Sentence Terminal | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| Double Exclamation Mark | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Nonstarter | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Double Exclamation Mark | |
| U |