Unicode character inspector
See the exact code of every character: code point, UTF-8, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and URL.
5 characters (max 300)
U+0041
Basic Latin (ASCII)
The exact encoding of each character is shown. The official Unicode name is not included, as it would require a table with over 30,000 entries; the character's block is shown instead.
Built by
Miguel Ángel Colorado Marin (MACM)
Built by
Miguel Ángel Colorado Marin (MACM)
Full-Stack Developer · Guadalajara, España
I develop web apps, digital tools and full projects — from design to deployment.
When text breaks as it passes through a database, JSON or a URL, the problem is almost always in how a character is encoded. This inspector shows, for each character in a text, its exact code point and every usual way to represent it: UTF-8 bytes (handy for debugging APIs and databases), UTF-16 units (to understand why an emoji takes two positions in JavaScript), the HTML entity, the JavaScript and CSS escapes, and the percent-encoding of a URL. It also reports which Unicode block the character belongs to.
Features
- ✓Hexadecimal (U+XXXX) and decimal code point of each character
- ✓UTF-8 bytes and UTF-16 units (including emoji surrogate pairs)
- ✓HTML entity, JavaScript escape, CSS escape and URL encoding
- ✓Classification by Unicode block (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, CJK, emoji…)
- ✓Copy any value with one click
How do I inspect Unicode characters?
- 1
Type or paste the text
Any text; each character appears as a selectable tile.
- 2
Select a character
Click the tile of the character you want to analyze in detail.
- 3
Review the encodings
Compare code point, UTF-8, UTF-16, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and URL.
- 4
Copy the value you need
Each row has its copy button to take it into your code.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between code point and UTF-8?
The code point is the number that identifies the character in the Unicode standard (for example, U+20AC for the euro sign). UTF-8 is how those bytes are stored or transmitted: the euro sign is encoded as three bytes, E2 82 AC.
Why does an emoji show two UTF-16 units?
Because characters above U+FFFF are represented in UTF-16 with a surrogate pair (two 16-bit units). That is why in JavaScript '😀'.length returns 2, even though it is a single visual character.
Does it include each character's official name?
No. The official name would require a table with tens of thousands of entries; instead, the Unicode block the character belongs to is shown, which is usually enough to identify it.
Is the text sent to a server?
No. All analysis is done in your browser with standard JavaScript. The text does not leave your device.
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