exclamation mark

See also: exclamation-mark

English

exclamation mark

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌeks.kləˈmeɪ.ʃənˌmɑːk/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɛks.kləˈmeɪ.ʃənˌmɑɹk/

Noun

exclamation mark (plural exclamation marks)

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

   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); pling

Translations

punctuation “!”

• Afrikaans: uitroepteken
• Arabic: ! (!), عَلَامَة تَعَجُّب‎ f (ʿalāmat taʿajjub), عَلَامَة هُتَاف‎ f (ʿalāmat hutāf)
• Armenian: բացականչական նշան (bacʿakančʿakan nšan)
• Bashkir: өндәү билдәһе (öndäw bildähe)
• 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
• Finnish: huutomerkki (fi)
• French: point d'exclamation (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Ausrufezeichen (de) n
• Greek: θαυμαστικό (el) n (thavmastikó)
• Hebrew: סימן קריאה‎ (he) m (siman kria)
• Hungarian: felkiáltójel (hu)
• Icelandic: upphrópunarmerki (is) n
• 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), ！ (ja)
• Korean: 느낌표 (neuggimpyo)

• Latvian: izsaukuma zīme f
• Lithuanian: šauktukas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Ausruffzeechen (lb) n
• Macedonian: извичник m (ízvičnik)
• Malay: tanda seru
• Maori: tohu karanga
• Norman: point d'excliamâtion m, mèrque d'excliamâtion f
• Norwegian: utropstegn n
• Persian: علامت تعجیب‎ ('alâmat-e ta'jib)
• Polish: wykrzyknik (pl) m
• Portuguese: ponto de exclamação m
• Romanian: semn de exclamare
• Russian: восклица́тельный знак (ru) m (vosklicátelʹnyj znak), ! (ru) (!)
• Scottish Gaelic: clisg-phuing m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀скличнӣк m, у̀звичнӣк m

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

• Slovene: klicaj (sl) m
• Southern Altai: кыйгылу темдек (kıygılu temdek)
• Spanish: signo de exclamación m
• Swahili: alama ya mshangao (sw)
• Swedish: utropstecken (sv) n
• Tagalog: tandang padamdam
• Turkish: ünlem (tr), ünlem işareti (tr)
• Welsh: ebychnod (cy) m, rhyfeddnod (cy) m

See also

Punctuation

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

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

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

• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal, UK) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )
• quotation marks (informal, US, Computing) ( " ) ( ' )

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

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