Exclamation Mark
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 33 on the numeric keypad to insert exclamation mark.
- Alt code
- Alt+33
- HTML entity
- !
- Unicode
- U+0021
About this symbol
One popular explanation of the exclamation mark traces it to the Latin io, a cry of joy, written with the I above the o, which shrank into a line above a dot. Typewriters had no key for it for a long time; typists made one by typing a full stop, backspacing and typing an apostrophe.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- EXCLAMATION MARK
- Also called
- Factorial, Bang
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- ǃ Latin Letter Retroflex Click U+01C3⹓ Medieval Exclamation Mark U+2E53ꜝ Modifier Letter Raised Exclamation Mark U+A71D
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.