Question 1

What is a Unicode code point?

Accepted Answer

A Unicode code point is a numeric value assigned to each character in the Unicode standard. It is typically written as U+ followed by 4 or more hexadecimal digits, for example U+0041 for the letter A or U+1F600 for the grinning face emoji.

Question 2

What is the difference between UTF-8 and UTF-16?

Accepted Answer

UTF-8 and UTF-16 are both encodings of Unicode. UTF-8 uses 1 to 4 bytes per character and is backward compatible with ASCII, making it the dominant encoding on the web. UTF-16 uses 2 or 4 bytes per code unit and is used internally by many systems (e.g. JavaScript, Windows, Java).

Question 3

How do I find the Unicode value of a character?

Accepted Answer

Paste or type the character into the input box above. The tool will display its Unicode code point (U+XXXX), decimal value, UTF-8 byte sequence, UTF-16 representation, HTML entity and URL encoding instantly.

🔤 Character Encoding Lookup

ASCII Printable (U+0020 - U+007E)

Latin-1 Supplement (U+00A0 - U+00FF)

Common Symbols & Punctuation

ASCII Printable (U+0020 - U+007E)

Latin-1 Supplement (U+00A0 - U+00FF)

Common Symbols & Punctuation

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