A single red exclamation point, the red-exclamation-mark emoji adds urgency to whatever comes with it. It flags something important, marks an emergency or alert, and gets stacked at the end of a sentence for extra emphasis — the emoji equivalent of underlining a warning twice.
What ❗ means
A red exclamation mark (!), sometimes defined with a black outline. The ❗ Red Exclamation Mark emoji signifies excitement, exclamation (as the name suggests), and any emphasized emotion heightened in both expression and intense.
How and when to use it
- An exclamation doesn't always mean that the preceding emotion is positive. ❗ could be used in astonishing, surprising, or angry contexts too. Like, "It pisses me off that the most we could do right now is NOTHING ❗" or "HOW is the government okay with THIS ❗❗".
- Since ❗ is red and it's an exclamatory symbol, this emoji is a valuable item among the "alert emojis". So, while sharing content that needs high visibility and immediate attention, use ❗. For instance, "❗ Here's something you've never heard of before ❗".
- While sharing something exciting on your social media handle or via a direct message (DM), you could include ❗. For example, "I finally got through ❗" or "We're announcing our first and biggest launch ever ❗".
- Essentially, ❗ acts as a replacement for the punctuation - !. Hence, if you wish to make any textual format all the more visually appealing and colorful, you may add this emoji in place of the mundane !.
Other Names
- ❗ Exclamation
- ❗ Heavy Exclamation Mark
- ❗ Exclamatory Punctuation
- ❗ Exclamation Mark in Red
- ❗ Heavy Exclamation Symbol
- ❗ Exclamation Symbol/Sign
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › punctuation
- Codepoints
U+2757- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:exclamation::heavy_exclamation_mark:GitHub · Slack- Keywords
- !, bang, exclamation, mark, punctuation, red
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — ❗ Red Exclamation Mark or 🥸 Disguised Face?