Unicode Character Inspector

Break any text into its Unicode code points, bytes, and escape forms.

Text

Code points

UTF-16 units

UTF-8 bytes

Invisible

Code point	Dec	UTF-8	UTF-16	HTML	CSS	JS	Name / category
U+0063	99	63	0063	c	\63	\u0063	Basic Latin letter
U+0061	97	61	0061	a	\61	\u0061	Basic Latin letter
U+0066	102	66	0066	f	\66	\u0066	Basic Latin letter
U+00E9	233	C3 A9	00E9	é	\E9	\u00E9	Letter
U+0020	32	20	0020		\20	\u0020	SPACE
U+1F1EC	127468	F0 9F 87 AC	D83C DDEC	🇬	\1F1EC	\u{1F1EC}	Emoji / symbol
U+1F1E7	127463	F0 9F 87 A7	D83C DDE7	🇧	\1F1E7	\u{1F1E7}	Emoji / symbol
U+0020	32	20	0020		\20	\u0020	SPACE
U+2713	10003	E2 9C 93	2713	✓	\2713	\u2713	Symbol
U+0020	32	20	0020		\20	\u0020	SPACE
U+0061	97	61	0061	a	\61	\u0061	Basic Latin letter
U+200B	8203	E2 80 8B	200B		\200B	\u200B	ZERO WIDTH SPACE
U+0062	98	62	0062	b	\62	\u0062	Basic Latin letter

About Unicode Character Inspector

Paste any text and see it one character at a time: the code point in U+ notation, its decimal value, the UTF-8 and UTF-16 bytes, the HTML entity, the CSS escape, the JavaScript escape, and a plain name or category. Emoji, accented letters, and invisible characters like zero-width spaces all show up clearly. Useful for debugging encoding issues, spotting hidden characters, and getting the exact escape you need. Everything runs in your browser.

What it shows

For every character in your text the table lists the Unicode code point (U+XXXX), its decimal value, the bytes when encoded as UTF-8 and UTF-16, a numeric or named HTML entity, the CSS escape, and the JavaScript string escape. A short label names the character or describes its category. The summary at the top counts code points, UTF-16 units (JavaScript's string length), UTF-8 bytes, and how many characters are invisible.

Find hidden characters

Some characters take up no space but still break things: zero-width spaces, the byte-order mark, non-breaking spaces, soft hyphens, and bidirectional marks. Paste text that's behaving oddly and the inspector flags each invisible character with a dot and its proper name, so you can see exactly what's in the string.

Code points vs bytes vs length

These three numbers often disagree, and that trips people up. An emoji like 😀 is one code point but two UTF-16 units (a surrogate pair), so JavaScript reports its string length as 2. The same emoji is four bytes in UTF-8. Flags are even worse, built from two regional-indicator code points. The inspector spells all of this out so you can reason about lengths and storage correctly.