exclamation mark

English

exclamation mark

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌeks.kləˈmeɪ.ʃən ˌmɑːk/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɛks.kləˈmeɪ.ʃən ˌmɑɹk/

Noun

exclamation mark (plural exclamation marks)

1. Punctuation mark “!” (used to denote excitement, surprise or shock).
   • 2006 Feb. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 2:

     Subject: Fire... Dear Sir-stroke-Madam: Fire. Exclamation mark. Fire. Exclamation mark. Help me. Exclamation mark. 123 Carendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. All the best, Maurice Moss.

   • 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 40:

     Traditionally, the exclamation mark has been used sparingly, especially in formal writing.

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

Synonyms

• (punctuation “!”): exclamation, exclamation point (USA); shriek (Britain); bang (USA); ecphoneme (obsolete); note of admiration (obsolete); note of interjection (obsolete); pling (computing); astonisher; screamer

Translations

punctuation “!”

• Afrikaans: uitroepteken
• Arabic: عَلَامَةْ تَعَجُّب‎ f (ʿalāmat taʿajjub), عَلَامَةْ هُتَاف‎ f (ʿalāmat hutāf)
• Armenian: բացականչական նշան (hy) (bacʿakančʿakan nšan)
• Azerbaijani: nida işarəsi
• Bashkir: өндәү билдәһе (öndäw bildähe)
• Belarusian: клі́чнік m (klíčnik), клі́чны знак m (klíčny znak)
• Bulgarian: удивителна (bg) f (udivitelna)
• Catalan: signe d'exclamació m, signe d'admiració m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 感嘆號 (zh), 感叹号 (zh) (gǎntànhào)

• Crimean Tatar: nida işareti
• Czech: vykřičník (cs) m
• Danish: udråbstegn (da) n
• Dutch: uitroepteken (nl) n
• Esperanto: krisigno
• Estonian: hüüumärk (et)
• Faroese: rópitekn n
• Finnish: huutomerkki (fi)
• French: point d'exclamation (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Ausrufezeichen (de) n, Ausrufungszeichen (de) n (rare), Rufzeichen (de) n (Austria)
• Greek: θαυμαστικό (el) n (thavmastikó)
• Hebrew: סימן קריאה‎ (he) m (siman kria)
• Hungarian: felkiáltójel (hu)
• Icelandic: upphrópunarmerki (is) n
• Ido: klamopunto (io)
• Irish: comhartha uaillbhreasa m
• Italian: punto esclamativo (it) m
• Japanese: 感嘆符 (ja) (かんたんふ, kantanfu), ビックリマーク (bikkurimāku)
• Khmer: ឧទានសញ្ញា (ʼutiənĕəʼsaññaa), វិម្ហយសញ្ញា (vɨmhaʼyĕəʼsaññaa)

• Korean: 느낌표 (ko) (neukkimpyo)
• Latvian: izsaukuma zīme f
• Lithuanian: šauktukas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Ausruffzeechen (lb) n
• Macedonian: извичник m (izvičnik)
• Malay: tanda seru
• Malayalam: വിക്ഷേപിണി (ml) (vikṣēpiṇi), ആശ്ചര്യചിഹ്നം (āścaryacihnaṃ)
• Maori: tohu karanga, tohuhā
• Norman: point d'excliamâtion m, mèrque d'excliamâtion f
• Norwegian: utropstegn (no) n
• Persian: عَلامَتِ تَعَجُّب‎‎ ('alâmat-e ta'ajjob)
• Polish: wykrzyknik (pl) m
• Portuguese: ponto de exclamação (pt) m
• Romanian: semn de exclamare n, semn de exclamație n
• Russian: восклица́тельный знак (ru) m (vosklicátelʹnyj znak)
• Scottish Gaelic: clisg-phuing m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀скличнӣк m, у̀звичнӣк m

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

• Slovak: výkričník m
• Slovene: klicaj (sl) m
• Southern Altai: кыйгылу темдек (kïygïlu temdek)
• Spanish: signo de exclamación m, signo de admiración m
• Swahili: alama ya mshangao (sw)
• Swedish: utropstecken (sv) n
• Tagalog: tandang padamdam
• Thai: อัศเจรีย์ (th) (àt-sà-jee-rii), เครื่องหมายตกใจ (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai-dtòk-jai)
• Turkish: ünlem (tr), ünlem işareti (tr)
• Ukrainian: окли́чний знак m (oklýčnyj znak), знак о́клику m (znak óklyku)
• Vietnamese: dấu chấm than (vi)
• Welsh: ebychnod (cy) m, rhyfeddnod (cy) m

See also

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

Punctuation

• apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
• braces ( { } )
• brackets ( [ ] )
• colon ( : )
• comma ( , )

• dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
• ellipsis ( … )
• exclamation mark ( ! )
• fraction slash ( ⁄ )
• guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )

• hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
• interpunct ( · )
• interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
• parentheses ( ( ) )
• period (US) or full stop (Britain) ( . )

• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
• quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

• semicolon ( ; )
• slash (US) or stroke (Britain) ( / )
• space (   )