Unicode Character Lookup — Code Point Inspector
Free online Unicode character lookup tool. Inspect text to see code points, UTF-8/UTF-16 encoding, Unicode block, and category. Search by U+ code point. No sign-up required.
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What Is Unicode?
Unicode is the universal character encoding standard that assigns a unique code point to every character across all writing systems, symbols, and emoji. Each character has a code point (like U+0041 for 'A'), a name, a Unicode block, and a general category. This tool lets you inspect any text character by character or look up characters by their code point.
How to Use This Unicode Lookup
- In Inspect Text mode, type or paste text to see detailed information about each character.
- In Lookup by Code Point mode, enter a code point (U+1F600, 0x41, or 65) to find the character.
- Click any character glyph to copy it to your clipboard.
- View UTF-8 and UTF-16 byte representations, HTML entities, Unicode block, and category.
Common Use Cases
- Debugging Encoding Issues — Inspect mysteriously broken text to identify wrong code points, invisible characters, or encoding mismatches.
- Finding Special Characters — Look up a Unicode code point to find and copy the corresponding character (symbols, arrows, math operators).
- Understanding Text Encoding — See how characters are encoded in UTF-8 and UTF-16 byte sequences.