U+203C DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK

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Decimal / Nº
8252
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a compatibility composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+203C, officially named DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a compatibility composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

As an officially designated emoji, this character can be displayed in colorful graphical formats on supported platforms. To explicitly request the colorful emoji presentation rather than a standard monochrome text symbol, developers can append the Variation Selector-16 (U+FE0F) directly after the character.

Representations & Encodings

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8252 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 80 BC Copied!
UTF-16 20 3C Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 20 3C Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%80%BC Copied!
HTML hex reference ‼ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'203C' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u203C Copied!
C and C++ \u203c Copied!
C# \u203c Copied!
CSS \00203C Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8252) Copied!
Go \u203c Copied!
JavaScript \u203C Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{203c} Copied!
JSON \u203C Copied!
Java \u203C Copied!
Lua \u{203C} Copied!
Matlab char(8252) Copied!
Perl \x{203C} Copied!
PHP \u{203c} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\203C' Copied!
PowerShell `u{203C} Copied!
Python \u203c Copied!
Ruby \u{203c} Copied!
Rust \u{203c} Copied!