U+203C Double Exclamation Mark

U+203C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs Exclamation Mark, Exclamation Mark. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. It can end sentences at appropriate places. U+203C prohibits line breaks before its position. There might be some exceptions, though. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The CLDR project calls this character “double exclamation mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: !, !!, bangbang, exclamation, mark.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ‼️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.