exclamation mark

English

exclamation mark

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌeks.kləˈmeɪ.ʃənˌmɑːk/, X-SAMPA: /%Eks.kl@"meI.S@n %mA:k/

Noun

exclamation mark (plural exclamation marks)

1. Punctuation mark “!” (used to denote excitement, surprise or shock).

   The excessive use of exclamation marks devaluates their effect, but is typical of concise genres such as cartoons, not reference works!

Synonyms

• (punctuation “!”): exclamation point (North America), shreek, bang
• ecphoneme (obsolete)

Translations

punctuation “!”

• Afrikaans: uitroepteken (af)
• Arabic: ! (ar), علامة تعجب (ar) (`alaamat ta`ájjub) f, علامة هتاف (ar) (`alaamat hutaaf) f
• Bulgarian: удивителна (bg) (udivitelna) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 感嘆號 (cmn), 感叹号 (cmn) (gǎntànhào), ！ (cmn)

• Czech: vykřičník (cs) m
• Danish: udråbstegn (da) n
• Dutch: uitroepteken (nl) n
• Esperanto: krisigno (eo)
• Finnish: huutomerkki (fi)
• French: point d'exclamation (fr) m
• German: Ausrufezeichen (de) n
• Greek: θαυμαστικό (el) (thavmastikó) n
• Hebrew: סימן קריאה (he) (siman kria) m
• Hungarian: felkiáltójel (hu)
• Icelandic: upphrópunarmerki (is) n
• Italian: punto esclamativo (it) m
• Japanese: 感嘆符 (ja) (かんたんふ, kantanfu), (simp.) ビックリマーク (ja) (bikkurimāku), ！ (ja)
• Jèrriais: point d'excliamâtion m, mèrque d'excliamâtion f

• Korean: 느낌표 (neuggimpyo)
• Luxembourgish: Ausruffzeechen (lb) n
• Macedonian: извичник (mk) (ízvičnik) m
• Malay: tanda seru (ms)
• Norwegian: utropstegn (no) n
• Persian: علامت تعجیب (fa) ('alâmat-e ta'jib)
• Polish: wykrzyknik (pl) m
• Portuguese: ponto de exclamação (pt) m
• Romanian: semn de exclamare (ro)
• Russian: восклицательный знак (ru) (vosklicátel'nyj znak) m, ! (ru) (!)
• Scottish Gaelic: clisg-phuing (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀скличнӣк (sh) m, у̀звичнӣк (sh) m

  Roman: ùskličnīk (sh) m, ùzvičnīk (sh) m

• Slovene: klicaj (sl) m
• Spanish: signo de exclamación (es) m, ¡ (es), ! (es)
• Swahili: alama ya mshangao (sw)
• Swedish: utropstecken (sv) n
• Turkish: ünlem (tr), ünlem işareti (tr)

See also

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) braces (publishing, music, programming) ( { } ) brackets (publishing, programming) ( [ ] ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop (British) or period (North America) ( . ) guillemets (publishing) ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interpunct (publishing, web design) ( · ) interrobang (rare) ( ‽ ) parentheses ( ( ) )

question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal, British) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, North America, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; ) slash ( / ) solidus (dated, mathematics) ( ⁄ ) space (   )

• ¡ (inverted exclamation mark/point)
• ‼ (double exclamation mark/point)
• ‽ (interrobang)
• ⁈
• ⁉
• ﹗ (small exclamation mark/point)
• ❢ (dingbat)
• ❣ (dingbat)
• ！ (fullwidth)
• ՜ (Armenian)
• ᥄ (Limbu)