Heavy Exclamation Mark Ornament ❢

U+2762
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Symbol Meaning

Exclamation marks had been helping people to express their emotions in writing even before emojis had appeared. Needless to say, this means of punctuation was really good at its job. The mark was implemented in typography back in the 15th century, and since then it's been widely used to convey astonishment, surprise, excitement, indignation and other strong feelings.

Heavy exclamation mark has an unusual description. In terms of size, its upper part doesn't exceed the lower dot and has a drop-like shape significantly narrowing closer to the bottom. If you need a more familiar exclamation mark, the appearance of which you're accustomed with, check out the classic typographical symbol ! or a smaller symbol with a rectangular upper part .

The symbol “Heavy Exclamation Mark Ornament” is included in the “Punctuation mark ornaments” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

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Unicode Name Heavy Exclamation Mark Ornament
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Unicode Block Dingbats
Unicode Subblock Punctuation mark ornaments
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Version 1.1
Block Dingbats
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 2762
Simple case change 2762
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9D A2 226 157 162 14851490 11100010 10011101 10100010
UTF-16BE 27 62 39 98 10082 00100111 01100010
UTF-16LE 62 27 98 39 25127 01100010 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 62 0 0 39 98 10082 00000000 00000000 00100111 01100010
UTF-32LE 62 27 00 00 98 39 0 0 1646723072 01100010 00100111 00000000 00000000
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