Unicode Inspector

Inspect every code point in a string — hex, decimal, UTF-8/16 bytes, block, and category.

Viewer Web Dev Updated Apr 19, 2026
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How to Use
  1. Type or paste any text.
  2. Each character gets its own row with encodings.
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Code points

Concepts

Code point
A numeric value U+0000 to U+10FFFF
UTF-8
1–4 bytes; ASCII is 1 byte
UTF-16
2 or 4 bytes (surrogate pair above U+FFFF)
Grapheme
Visible unit — may be multiple code points

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does my emoji show as 2 code points?

Many emoji are above U+FFFF and encoded as surrogate pairs in UTF-16. Others use ZWJ to combine.

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