Red exclamation mark

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Shortcode
:exclamation:
Shortcode
:heavy_exclamation_mark:
Unicode
U+2757
HTML
❗
CSS
\2757
JavaScript
"\u{2757}"
URL
%E2%9D%97

!bangexclamationmarkpunctuationred

What ❗ means

A bold red exclamation mark. It signals importance, urgency, or a warning.

People open announcements with ❗, mark must-read items in notes, and use it as a quick 'pay attention' reaction. In work chat it can flag a blocker; doubled or tripled, it sounds alarmed.

Facts

Red exclamation mark ❗ is an emoji in the symbols category, under punctuation. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :exclamation: or :heavy_exclamation_mark:. People also look for it with words like “!”, “bang”, “exclamation”, or “mark”.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. red exclamation mark, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. red exclamation mark, Google (Noto) design from 20172017

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. red exclamation mark, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

symbols · Unicode 6.0