A comprehensive, interactive reference to the Unicode Standard. Browse characters by block, search by name or code point, and copy any glyph instantly. Essential for developers, content creators, and typographers.
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Unicode is the universal character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium. It assigns a unique number (code point) to every character, symbol, and emoji across all writing systems of the world — from Latin and Cyrillic to Egyptian Hieroglyphs and modern emojis. As of Unicode 15.1, over 149,000 characters are defined, covering 161 scripts.
U+0041 = 'A' (Latin Capital Letter A)
U+03A9 = 'Ω' (Greek Capital Letter Omega)
U+1F600 = '?' (Grinning Face)
Each code point is expressed in hexadecimal notation, prefixed by "U+".
Before Unicode, fragmented character encodings (ASCII, ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252, Shift-JIS) caused data corruption and "mojibake" (garbled text). Unicode provides a consistent way to encode text for global digital communication. It defines three primary encoding forms: UTF-8 (variable-width, backward-compatible with ASCII), UTF-16 (used by Windows, Java, JavaScript), and UTF-32 (fixed-width). Over 98% of all web pages now use UTF-8, making Unicode the backbone of the internet.
Understanding Unicode code points and character categories is crucial for software localization, font development, text processing, and even cybersecurity (e.g., homoglyph attacks). Our interactive table includes carefully selected ranges from the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP, U+0000 to U+FFFF), the most commonly used segment in daily applications.
The Unicode codespace is divided into 17 planes (each 65,536 code points). Plane 0 is the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) containing most modern scripts and symbols. Planes 1–16 accommodate historical scripts, rare CJK ideographs, and emojis. Within each plane, characters are organized into blocks (contiguous ranges) such as "Basic Latin" (U+0000–U+007F), "Latin-1 Supplement" (U+0080–U+00FF), "Mathematical Operators" (U+2200–U+22FF), and "Miscellaneous Symbols" (U+2600–U+26FF).
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Our interactive database includes over 800 commonly used characters drawn from authoritative Unicode reference data. The table is dynamically generated and fully searchable: type any keyword (e.g., "Euro", "registered", "theta") or paste a code point like "U+03B4". The search algorithm matches character glyphs, code point hex strings, and Unicode names. You can copy any character to your clipboard with a single click — perfect for design work, documentation, or coding.
Each character name follows the official Unicode Character Database (UCD) naming patterns. For example, "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A", "GREEK SMALL LETTER PI", "COPYRIGHT SIGN", "LIGHTNING MOON" (though our symbolic ranges are officially recognized). We've meticulously mapped code points from U+0020 to U+00FF, plus common symbol blocks (U+2000–U+206F, U+2190–U+21FF, U+2200–U+22FF, U+2600–U+26FF) and Greek letters. All data is validated against Unicode 15.0 conventions.
A global fintech company needed to display currency symbols correctly across 50+ locales. Using our Unicode Table, their developers quickly identified the exact code points for Bitcoin (₿ U+20BF), Indian Rupee (₹ U+20B9), and Turkish Lira (₺ U+20BA). The searchable interface helped eliminate encoding errors and reduced localization bugs by 35%. This demonstrates the practical power of having an accurate, interactive character reference.