Exclamation Mark is the Unicode character ! at codepoint U+0021 in the Basic Latin block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Exclamation Mark
To use the Exclamation Mark symbol (!) in HTML, insert the
entity ! directly into your markup. The decimal entity ! works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\21';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u0021' evaluates to !. In Python source, write '\u0021'.
The character encodes to 21 as UTF-8 bytes and 0021 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 33.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.