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Browse & search all Unicode characters Β· UTF-8/UTF-16/HTML encoding Β· One-click copy

Character Browser

What Can the Unicode Character Map Do?

The Unicode Character Map is a visual tool for browsing and searching Unicode characters. It supports browsing by block, searching by name, viewing multiple encoding formats (UTF-8/UTF-16/HTML entity/CSS/JS), and one-click copy to clipboard.

Key Features

Use Cases

Frontend Development: Find HTML entities, CSS escapes, and JS escapes for special characters.

Design & Typography: Browse decorative symbols, arrows, math symbols, and other special characters.

Internationalization: View character ranges and encodings for different writing systems.

Technical Background

Unicode is maintained by the Unicode Consortium. Version 15.1 contains 149,813 characters. Code points range from U+0000 to U+10FFFF, divided into 17 planes. The BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane, U+0000-FFFF) contains the most commonly used characters. UTF-8 is the most widely used web encoding, ASCII-compatible, with variable length 1-4 bytes.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Unicode character map?

A visual tool for browsing and searching Unicode characters. Unicode contains 140,000+ characters covering all writing systems. Browse by block, search, view encodings, one-click copy.

How many characters in Unicode?

Unicode 15.1 contains 149,813 characters covering 161 writing systems. Code point range U+0000 to U+10FFFF.

UTF-8 vs UTF-16?

UTF-8: 1-4 bytes (ASCII 1, Chinese 3, emoji 4). UTF-16: 2 or 4 bytes. UTF-8 is most common for web; UTF-16 is JS internal encoding.

How to input special characters?

One-click copy from this tool; Windows Alt+numpad; macOS Ctrl+Cmd+Space; HTML &#x + hex; CSS \\ + hex; JS \\u + hex.

What are Unicode blocks?

Unicode groups characters by function into blocks: Basic Latin (U+0000), CJK (U+4E00), Emoticons (U+1F600), etc.

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