U+2757 Heavy Exclamation Mark Symbol
U+2757 was added to Unicode in version 5.2 (2009). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as obstacles on the road and ARIB STD B24.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+2757 behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “red exclamation mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: !, exclamation, mark, punctuation, red exclamation mark.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The exclamation mark, !, or exclamation point (American English), is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or to show emphasis. The exclamation mark often marks the end of a sentence, for example: "Watch out!". Similarly, a bare exclamation mark (with nothing before or after) is often established in warning signs. The exclamation mark is often used in writing to make a character seem as though they are shouting and/or excited/surprised.
Other uses include:
- In mathematics, it denotes the factorial operation.
- Several computer languages use ! at the beginning of an expression to denote logical negation. For example,!A means "the logical negation of A", also called "not A". This usage has spread to ordinary language (e.g. "!clue" means no-clue or clueless).
- Some languages use ! to denote a click consonant.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 10071 |
UTF-8 | E2 9D 97 |
UTF-16 | 27 57 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 27 57 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%9D%97 |
HTML hex reference | ❗ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â— |
alias | obstacles on the road |
alias | ARIB STD B24 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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