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U+0021 · EXCLAMATION MARK

Exclamation Mark

  • CodepointU+0021
  • NameEXCLAMATION MARK
  • Decimal33
  • BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthNa — Narrow
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0021 (!) is EXCLAMATION MARK, a punctuation mark in the Basic Latin block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8211 byte
UTF-1600211 code unit
UTF-32000000214 bytes
HTML named!named character reference
HTML decimal!
HTML hex!
CSS\21in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0021
JSON\u0021
Python\u0021
Python\N{EXCLAMATION MARK}by name
Java / C#\u0021
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{21}
Go\u0021
Ruby\u0021
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(33)
URL-encoded%21percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

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Characters built on !

U+203C‼Double Exclamation Mark U+2048⁈Question Exclamation Mark U+2049⁉Exclamation Question Mark U+FE15︕Presentation Form for Vertical Exclamation Mark U+FE57﹗Small Exclamation Mark U+FF01！Fullwidth Exclamation Mark
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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →
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