Unicode character inspector

See the code point, UTF-8 bytes and UTF-16 units of every character in a text. Useful for debugging encoding problems.

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7 characters.

Character	Code point	UTF-8 bytes	UTF-16 units
H	U+0048	48	0048
é	U+00E9	C3 A9	00E9
l	U+006C	6C	006C
l	U+006C	6C	006C
o	U+006F	6F	006F
␣	U+0020	20	0020
👋	U+1F44B	F0 9F 91 8B	D83D DC4B

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Paste any text to see each character with its Unicode code point and byte representation.

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What is a code point?

A unique number for every Unicode character, written as U+ followed by hex digits, for example U+1F600.

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