Unicode Character Map

Interactive browsable Unicode table with arrows, math symbols, currency, Greek letters, and box drawing blocks. Click to copy any character.

How to Use Unicode Character Map

1

Browse or search

Scroll through Unicode blocks or search by character name.
2

Click a character

Select any Unicode character to view its details and code point.
3

Copy the character

Click copy to grab the character or its code for use.

Tested tool guide Text and writing tools Checked August 16, 2026

What Unicode Character Map does, with a checked example

An interactive table of Unicode characters arranged in the standard's own blocks: arrows, mathematical operators, currency symbols, Greek and Coptic letters, box drawing, and more. Click any character to copy it; each entry pairs the glyph with its code point and its official Unicode name. The surprise most users hit: visually identical signs are often different characters. The minus sign (U+2212), the hyphen (U+002D), and the en dash (U+2013) are three distinct code points, and pasting the wrong one can break a formula, a search, or a URL.

Worked example

A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.

Input

Click the euro sign in the Currency Symbols section.

Expected output

Shows U+20AC, EURO SIGN, in block Currency Symbols (U+20A0-U+20CF), and puts the single character € on the clipboard. Pasting produces €, not the letters EUR.

The Unicode Standard assigns the euro sign the code point U+20AC (decimal 8364) inside the Currency Symbols block, so this is the canonical pairing any character table shows.

How the result is produced

Block organization

Characters are grouped into the Unicode Standard's official blocks - Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F), Mathematical Operators (U+2200-U+22FF), Currency Symbols (U+20A0-U+20CF) - so you browse a section rather than a list of 150,000+ code points. Each entry shows the glyph with its code point and official name, such as GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA for U+03B1.

Click to copy

Clicking a character puts the character itself - a code point, not an image of the glyph - on the clipboard as text, entirely within the browser. Nothing is uploaded. The font that renders it is decided by the app you paste into, so the same character can look different across documents. One click copies exactly one code point, which matters when a visible glyph is built from several.

Good uses

Putting a symbol your keyboard lacks - degree sign, arrow, euro, Greek letter - into a document, email, or chat message.
Building tables and diagrams in plain text with box drawing characters (U+2500-U+257F) for code comments, terminals, or monospace documents.
Reading off the exact code point to use in an HTML entity, CSS content value, or source code instead of guessing a key combination.

Limits and checks

Same look, different character: the minus sign U+2212, the hyphen U+002D, and the en dash U+2013 are distinct code points. A spreadsheet formula or a search may not recognize the non-ASCII minus as a minus, so verify what you actually copied.
A placeholder box after pasting does not mean the copy failed. The target font may simply lack the glyph; another app with broader font coverage will show it, and some rare characters never render on certain devices.
One visible glyph can be several code points. The letter é exists both precomposed (U+00E9) and as e plus the combining acute accent U+0301; the table lists them separately, and pasting the two-part version counts as two characters in a length-limited field.

Common questions

Why does the pasted character look different from what the page showed?

The page copies the character's code point, not its rendered appearance. The font in your target app decides the glyph, and fonts cover different ranges of Unicode, so the same character can look noticeably different or appear as a box. The copy itself did not fail; paste it somewhere else to confirm.

Can I insert these characters without opening the site every time?

The site copies one character per click and installs nothing. For frequent use, your operating system already has tools: the Character Viewer on macOS (Control+Command+Space), Character Map and the Win+. emoji panel on Windows, and Word's Alt+X hex input. Those insert characters directly, without a browser.

References and verification

The example and behavioral notes were checked against the browser implementation. Standards and primary references below define the relevant format, formula, or platform behavior.