How do I find the Unicode code point of a character?

Paste it into Character / Emoji. Each code point gets a row with its U+ value, name, category, script and block; click a code point for its UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 forms and seven copy formats, such as ♥ and 0x2665 for ♥.

How do I get a character from its code point?

Type it into Code Point as U+1F600, 1F600, 0x1F600, \u{1F600} or 😀. A bare number is hexadecimal, so 65 is U+0065 (e), not A; write A for decimal.

Why does one character show two code points?

Many emoji are sequences: 👍🏽 is THUMBS UP SIGN followed by EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-4, and the flag 🇮🇳 is the regional indicator letters I and N. Accented letters can be stored two ways too. é can be the single code point U+00E9 (2 UTF-8 bytes) or e followed by COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT U+0301 (3 bytes), and the two look identical, which is why two strings that seem equal can fail to match. Paste each one here to see which form it uses; the tool does not convert between them (NFC or NFD normalization).

What Unicode version does the lookup use?

Blocks come from Blocks.txt of Unicode 18.0.0, dated 2026-07-08, which lists 353 blocks. Category and script come from your browser’s own Unicode data, so a character newer than the browser shows as not assigned (Cn).

Why does a character show no name?

Names ship for 3,540 characters: ASCII, Latin-1, Latin Extended-A, combining marks, Greek, Cyrillic, punctuation, currency, arrows, mathematical operators, symbols, dingbats and emoji. CJK ideographs and Hangul syllables are named by formula, such as CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E2D for 中. Any other character is listed without a name rather than with a guess.

Can it escape text for JSON or JavaScript?

Yes, in Escape / Unescape. Escape writes each non-ASCII character as \uXXXX, with surrogate pairs for emoji, or as one \u{...} per code point: “Café 😀” becomes Caf\u00E9 \uD83D\uDE00. Unescape reads those forms and &#...; references back into text.

Unicode Lookup

Look up any character or code point such as U+1F600: its name, category, script, block and UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 bytes, or search names and browse blocks. How it works

Character / Emoji

Code Point

Several characters are fine: each code point gets a row. Code points can be written U+1F600, 1F600 (hexadecimal), 0x1F600, \u{1F600} or 😀, separated by spaces or commas. Up to 10,000 characters; 1,000 rows are listed.

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Block (353 listed)

4 code points · 4 UTF-16 units · 5 UTF-8 bytes

Char	Name	Category	Script	Block
C	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C	Lu · Letter, uppercase	Latin	Basic Latin
a	LATIN SMALL LETTER A	Ll · Letter, lowercase	Latin	Basic Latin
f	LATIN SMALL LETTER F	Ll · Letter, lowercase	Latin	Basic Latin
é	LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE	Ll · Letter, lowercase	Latin	Latin-1 Supplement

Characters that print nothing (controls, spaces, format characters, combining marks on their own) are drawn as a stand-in.

Details for U+0043

Character: C
Name: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
General category: Lu · Letter, uppercase
Script: Latin
Block: Basic Latin
Properties: Alphabetic, Uppercase
UTF-8 bytes: 43
UTF-16 units: 0043
UTF-32: 00000043
Written as U+XXXX: U+0043
Written as \uXXXX: \u0043
Written as \u{X}: \u{43}
Written as &#xX;: C
Written as &#N;: C
Written as 0xXXXX: 0x0043
Written as CSS \X: \43

Recent:single characters you look up appear here (saved in this browser)

Category and script come from this browser's own Unicode data, so they are right for every code point it knows. Blocks come from Blocks.txt, Unicode 18.0.0 (2026-07-08), 353 blocks.

Names are available for 191+ characters (ASCII, Latin-1, Latin Extended-A, combining marks, Greek, Cyrillic, punctuation, currency, arrows, mathematical operators, geometric shapes, symbols, dingbats, regional indicators and emoji), plus CJK ideographs and Hangul syllables by formula. Every other character is listed without a name.

About the Unicode Lookup

U+2665 is BLACK HEART SUIT (♥): category So, script Common, block Miscellaneous Symbols, UTF-8 bytes E2 99 A5. This Unicode lookup shows the same for any character, emoji or code point you enter, one row per code point, searches 3,540 character names and browses all 353 blocks by plane, 1,000 code points to a page.

Common characters and their code points

Character	Code point	Name	UTF-8 bytes	UTF-16 units	HTML
é	U+00E9	LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE	C3 A9	00E9	é
©	U+00A9	COPYRIGHT SIGN	C2 A9	00A9	©
€	U+20AC	EURO SIGN	E2 82 AC	20AC	€
→	U+2192	RIGHTWARDS ARROW	E2 86 92	2192	→
♥	U+2665	BLACK HEART SUIT	E2 99 A5	2665	♥
中	U+4E2D	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E2D	E4 B8 AD	4E2D	中
😀	U+1F600	GRINNING FACE	F0 9F 98 80	D83D DE00	😀
👍	U+1F44D	THUMBS UP SIGN	F0 9F 91 8D	D83D DC4D	👍
(invisible, shown as ␣)	U+00A0	NO-BREAK SPACE	C2 A0	00A0
(invisible, shown as ⎕)	U+200D	ZERO WIDTH JOINER	E2 80 8D	200D	‍

A character that prints nothing is drawn in the tool as a stand-in: ␣ for a space, ⎕ for a format character such as the zero width joiner. Copying the stand-in does not copy the character; use the tool’s copy formats, such as  , instead.

Code points, bytes and user-perceived characters

Text	Code points	UTF-16 units	UTF-8 bytes	User-perceived characters
Café	4	4	5	4
👍🏽 (thumbs up with a skin tone)	2	4	8	1
🇮🇳 (flag of India)	2	4	8	1
é written as e plus U+0301	2	2	3	1

Frequently asked questions

How do I find the Unicode code point of a character?: Paste it into Character / Emoji. Each code point gets a row with its U+ value, name, category, script and block; click a code point for its UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 forms and seven copy formats, such as ♥ and 0x2665 for ♥.
How do I get a character from its code point?: Type it into Code Point as U+1F600, 1F600, 0x1F600, \u{1F600} or 😀. A bare number is hexadecimal, so 65 is U+0065 (e), not A; write A for decimal.
Why does one character show two code points?: Many emoji are sequences: 👍🏽 is THUMBS UP SIGN followed by EMOJI MODIFIER FITZPATRICK TYPE-4, and the flag 🇮🇳 is the regional indicator letters I and N. Accented letters can be stored two ways too. é can be the single code point U+00E9 (2 UTF-8 bytes) or e followed by COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT U+0301 (3 bytes), and the two look identical, which is why two strings that seem equal can fail to match. Paste each one here to see which form it uses; the tool does not convert between them (NFC or NFD normalization).
What Unicode version does the lookup use?: Blocks come from Blocks.txt of Unicode 18.0.0, dated 2026-07-08, which lists 353 blocks. Category and script come from your browser’s own Unicode data, so a character newer than the browser shows as not assigned (Cn).
Why does a character show no name?: Names ship for 3,540 characters: ASCII, Latin-1, Latin Extended-A, combining marks, Greek, Cyrillic, punctuation, currency, arrows, mathematical operators, symbols, dingbats and emoji. CJK ideographs and Hangul syllables are named by formula, such as CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E2D for 中. Any other character is listed without a name rather than with a guess.
Can it escape text for JSON or JavaScript?: Yes, in Escape / Unescape. Escape writes each non-ASCII character as \uXXXX, with surrogate pairs for emoji, or as one \u{...} per code point: “Café 😀” becomes Caf\u00E9 \uD83D\uDE00. Unescape reads those forms and &#...; references back into text.

When text holds a character you cannot see

Look up a character when text misbehaves: a no-break space hiding in a form value, a zero width joiner inside an emoji, a curly quote pasted into source code, or a 4-byte emoji that an old database column cannot store. Writers and designers use the name search to find a symbol, such as heart suit or arrow, and copy its HTML or CSS form.

Browse by block lists what a block holds. Pick a plane, such as the Basic Multilingual Plane (164 blocks) or the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (174), then a block: Miscellaneous Symbols shows its 256 code points on one page, and larger blocks come 1,000 to a page, so CJK Unified Ideographs takes 21 pages. Click a code point for its details.

Where each fact comes from

Every code point in the text gets its own row.

Category and script come from the browser's own Unicode property data.
The block comes from Blocks.txt of Unicode 18.0.0, which lists 353 blocks.
UTF-8 takes 1 byte up to U+007F, 2 up to U+07FF, 3 up to U+FFFF and 4 above. UTF-16 takes one unit up to U+FFFF and a surrogate pair above. UTF-32 is the code point in 4 bytes.
Names ship for 3,540 characters, and CJK ideographs and Hangul syllables are named by formula. Other characters are shown without a name.

Example: € is U+20AC EURO SIGN, category Sc (Symbol, currency), block Currency Symbols, UTF-8 E2 82 AC, UTF-16 20AC, and € in HTML. The default text Café has 4 code points and 5 UTF-8 bytes, because é takes 2.

Limits: 10,000 characters, with the first 1,000 code points listed. Single characters you look up are kept in this browser's Recent list until you press Clear Saved Values.

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