Unicode Character Search
Search and copy Unicode characters by name, category, or code point.
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Matches: 121
About Unicode Character Search
Unicode is the international standard for encoding, representing, and handling text in most of the world's writing systems. It assigns a unique code point to every character, symbol, emoji, and glyph. This tool provides a searchable catalog of 121 commonly used Unicode characters across categories including symbols, arrows, math operators, currency signs, fractions, card suits, emoji, Greek letters, box-drawing characters, and musical notation. Click any character to copy it to your clipboard.
Built and maintained by Meet Shah · Last updated
What this tool is used for
- Finding a character by name when you do not know its code point.
- Searching a category for the right arrow or mathematical operator.
- Looking up a symbol you have seen but cannot type.
- Browsing a block to see what is available.
- Copying a character into a field with no insert menu.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I find a character when I do not know its name?
- Search by what it looks like or by category — the standard's names are formal and often unintuitive, so the arrow you want may be named by its direction and weight rather than by anything you would guess.
- Why do several characters look identical?
- Because different scripts contain visually identical shapes — Latin A, Cyrillic А and Greek Α are three distinct code points. That is the basis of homograph attacks and a common cause of comparisons failing.
- What is a code point's block?
- A named contiguous range grouping related characters, such as Basic Latin or Mathematical Operators. Blocks are an organisational convenience, not a guarantee — a script's characters can span several blocks.
- How do I type a character I have found?
- By copying it, or with the platform's code point entry — `Ctrl+Shift+U` on Linux, the character viewer on macOS, `Alt+X` after the hex in Windows applications that support it.
- Why does a character show as a box?
- Because your font has no glyph for it, not because the character is invalid. The text is intact and will display correctly anywhere with a font that covers that range.
Common errors and gotchas
- Assuming a character will render, when many have no glyph in any installed font.
- Choosing a lookalike character rather than the correct one, which breaks comparison and search.
- Searching by the name you would use rather than the name Unicode assigned, which often differ.
- Overlooking that a visible character may be a sequence rather than a single code point.
- Using a decorative character where markup or a proper symbol was needed.
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