U+FE57 "﹗" Small Exclamation Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE57 "﹗" Small Exclamation Mark is a typographic variant of the standard exclamation mark, designed to fit within the small form variant block of Unicode, which is often used for compatibility with East Asian text layout and vertical writing systems. It appears as a reduced or narrow version of the standard exclamation point, intended to match the size and weight of other small punctuation marks in contexts like Japanese, Chinese, or Korean text where consistent visual alignment is important. This character serves a specific stylistic and functional role, enabling clearer and more harmonious typesetting in multilingual documents or specialized fonts that require compact punctuation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE57 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Small Exclamation Mark |
| Block | Small Form Variants |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Small |
| Decomposition Mapping | "!" U+0021 Exclamation Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﹗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﹗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB9 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe57 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Exclamation/Interrogation |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "!" U+0021 Exclamation Mark |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "!" U+0021 Exclamation Mark |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Sentence Terminal | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | STerm |