Unicode Character Inspector

Every character you see is a Unicode code point with a number behind it, and this inspector reveals it.

Paste any text and it breaks the string into individual code points — correctly handling emoji and other characters that live outside the basic plane and are stored as surrogate pairs, so a single emoji counts as one character, not two.

For each one it shows the character itself, its code point in the standard U+XXXX notation, its decimal value, and the exact UTF-8 bytes used to encode it, written as hexadecimal.

That combination answers the questions that come up when text behaves strangely: why two strings that look identical are not equal (a hidden zero-width or combining character), which "space" you actually have, whether that dash is a hyphen or an en dash, or how many bytes a string will take on the wire.

Because it iterates by code point rather than by UTF-16 unit, the counts and byte sequences are accurate even for astral-plane characters.

It is purely informational and runs entirely in your browser — nothing you inspect is ever sent anywhere.

Use it to debug encoding bugs, audit suspicious input, or simply learn how the characters you type are represented underneath.