Symbols · Emoji 0.6
❕White Exclamation Mark Emoji
Generally, it means “pay attention!” or “important!”
The white exclamation mark, ❕, is used to show emphasis.
- Unicode
- U+2755
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :grey_
exclamation: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ❕ White Exclamation Mark emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
White Exclamation Mark emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the white exclamation mark has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
White Exclamation Mark emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :grey_exclamation:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+2755.
04 — How to type
How to type the ❕ White Exclamation Mark emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+2755 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
White Exclamation Mark emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the white exclamation mark as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
White Exclamation Mark emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around white exclamation mark for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What ❕ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What ❕ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
❕ vs ❗️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: White Exclamation Mark
Code: U+2755 · added 2010
Shortcode: :grey_exclamation:
Generally, it means “pay attention!”
Unicode name: Red Exclamation Mark
Code: U+2757 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :exclamation:
Basically, it means “listen up!”
11 — History
Where the ❕ White Exclamation Mark emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+2755 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
❕ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E702, KDDI au E482, SoftBank E337.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
White Exclamation Mark was approved as U+2755 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ❕ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ