Unicode Characters — Symbols, Code Points and UTF-8

A curated set of frequently used Unicode characters grouped by block, each with its code point, official character name, HTML numeric reference and UTF-8 encoding. Unicode has well over 150,000 characters, so this page covers the common ones and links to the full charts.

How Unicode code points work

Unicode gives every character a number called a code point, written U+ followed by at least four hex digits, such as U+00A9 for ©. Code points run from U+0000 to U+10FFFF and are grouped into named blocks. The first 128 code points are identical to ASCII.

UTF-8 stores each code point in 1 to 4 bytes: ASCII uses 1 byte, most Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letters use 2, most other symbols use 3, and emoji and other characters above U+FFFF use 4.

HTML: © (decimal) or © (hex) inserts U+00A9 in any web page.
CSS content: "\A9" or "\2665" uses the hex code point.
JavaScript and JSON: "\u00A9"; code points above U+FFFF use "\u{1F600}" in JavaScript.
Microsoft Office on Windows: type the hex code, then press Alt+X.

Sources: Unicode Consortium: FAQ: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM; Microsoft Support: Insert ASCII or Unicode Latin-based symbols and characters

Punctuation, currency and letterlike symbols

Typographic punctuation, currency signs and letterlike symbols from the Latin-1 Supplement, General Punctuation, Currency Symbols and Letterlike Symbols blocks.

Common punctuation, currency and letterlike symbols
Character	Code point	Name	HTML	UTF-8 bytes
©	U+00A9	Copyright Sign	©	C2 A9
®	U+00AE	Registered Sign	®	C2 AE
™	U+2122	Trade Mark Sign	™	E2 84 A2
°	U+00B0	Degree Sign	°	C2 B0
±	U+00B1	Plus-Minus Sign	±	C2 B1
×	U+00D7	Multiplication Sign	×	C3 97
÷	U+00F7	Division Sign	÷	C3 B7
µ	U+00B5	Micro Sign	µ	C2 B5
§	U+00A7	Section Sign	§	C2 A7
¶	U+00B6	Pilcrow Sign	¶	C2 B6
(no-break space)	U+00A0	No-Break Space		C2 A0
•	U+2022	Bullet	•	E2 80 A2
…	U+2026	Horizontal Ellipsis	…	E2 80 A6
–	U+2013	En Dash	–	E2 80 93
—	U+2014	Em Dash	—	E2 80 94
‘	U+2018	Left Single Quotation Mark	‘	E2 80 98
’	U+2019	Right Single Quotation Mark	’	E2 80 99
“	U+201C	Left Double Quotation Mark	“	E2 80 9C
”	U+201D	Right Double Quotation Mark	”	E2 80 9D
‰	U+2030	Per Mille Sign	‰	E2 80 B0
€	U+20AC	Euro Sign	€	E2 82 AC
£	U+00A3	Pound Sign	£	C2 A3
¥	U+00A5	Yen Sign	¥	C2 A5
¢	U+00A2	Cent Sign	¢	C2 A2
₹	U+20B9	Indian Rupee Sign	₹	E2 82 B9
₽	U+20BD	Ruble Sign	₽	E2 82 BD
₩	U+20A9	Won Sign	₩	E2 82 A9
₺	U+20BA	Turkish Lira Sign	₺	E2 82 BA
₿	U+20BF	Bitcoin Sign	₿	E2 82 BF
½	U+00BD	Vulgar Fraction One Half	½	C2 BD
℃	U+2103	Degree Celsius	℃	E2 84 83
℉	U+2109	Degree Fahrenheit	℉	E2 84 89
№	U+2116	Numero Sign	№	E2 84 96
ℓ	U+2113	Script Small L	ℓ	E2 84 93
Ω	U+2126	Ohm Sign	Ω	E2 84 A6

Sources: Unicode Consortium: Unicode Character Database: UnicodeData.txt; Unicode Consortium: Unicode Character Database: Blocks.txt

Greek letters, math and number forms

Letters and operators used in mathematics and science. The micro sign µ (U+00B5) and Greek mu μ (U+03BC) look alike but are different characters, as are the ohm sign Ω (U+2126) and Greek capital omega Ω (U+03A9). Unicode normalization (NFC) replaces the ohm sign with the Greek omega, and compatibility normalization (NFKC) replaces the micro sign with mu.

Greek letters, mathematical operators and number forms
Character	Code point	Name	HTML	UTF-8 bytes
α	U+03B1	Greek Small Letter Alpha	α	CE B1
β	U+03B2	Greek Small Letter Beta	β	CE B2
Δ	U+0394	Greek Capital Letter Delta	Δ	CE 94
θ	U+03B8	Greek Small Letter Theta	θ	CE B8
λ	U+03BB	Greek Small Letter Lamda	λ	CE BB
μ	U+03BC	Greek Small Letter Mu	μ	CE BC
π	U+03C0	Greek Small Letter Pi	π	CF 80
Σ	U+03A3	Greek Capital Letter Sigma	Σ	CE A3
Ω	U+03A9	Greek Capital Letter Omega	Ω	CE A9
∑	U+2211	N-Ary Summation	∑	E2 88 91
√	U+221A	Square Root	√	E2 88 9A
∞	U+221E	Infinity	∞	E2 88 9E
≈	U+2248	Almost Equal To	≈	E2 89 88
≠	U+2260	Not Equal To	≠	E2 89 A0
≤	U+2264	Less-Than Or Equal To	≤	E2 89 A4
≥	U+2265	Greater-Than Or Equal To	≥	E2 89 A5
∫	U+222B	Integral	∫	E2 88 AB
∂	U+2202	Partial Differential	∂	E2 88 82
∈	U+2208	Element Of	∈	E2 88 88
∩	U+2229	Intersection	∩	E2 88 A9
∪	U+222A	Union	∪	E2 88 AA
−	U+2212	Minus Sign	−	E2 88 92
⅓	U+2153	Vulgar Fraction One Third	⅓	E2 85 93
⅔	U+2154	Vulgar Fraction Two Thirds	⅔	E2 85 94
⅛	U+215B	Vulgar Fraction One Eighth	⅛	E2 85 9B
Ⅻ	U+216B	Roman Numeral Twelve	Ⅻ	E2 85 AB

Sources: Unicode Consortium: Unicode Character Database: UnicodeData.txt; Unicode Consortium: Unicode Character Database: Blocks.txt

Arrows, shapes, symbols and emoji

Arrows, box drawing, geometric shapes, miscellaneous symbols, dingbats and a few emoji. Emoji appearance varies by platform and font.

Arrows, shapes, symbols, dingbats and emoji
Character	Code point	Name	HTML	UTF-8 bytes
←	U+2190	Leftwards Arrow	←	E2 86 90
↑	U+2191	Upwards Arrow	↑	E2 86 91
→	U+2192	Rightwards Arrow	→	E2 86 92
↓	U+2193	Downwards Arrow	↓	E2 86 93
↔	U+2194	Left Right Arrow	↔	E2 86 94
⇒	U+21D2	Rightwards Double Arrow	⇒	E2 87 92
①	U+2460	Circled Digit One	①	E2 91 A0
ⓐ	U+24D0	Circled Latin Small Letter A	ⓐ	E2 93 90
─	U+2500	Box Drawings Light Horizontal	─	E2 94 80
│	U+2502	Box Drawings Light Vertical	│	E2 94 82
┌	U+250C	Box Drawings Light Down And Right	┌	E2 94 8C
■	U+25A0	Black Square	■	E2 96 A0
□	U+25A1	White Square	□	E2 96 A1
▲	U+25B2	Black Up-Pointing Triangle	▲	E2 96 B2
●	U+25CF	Black Circle	●	E2 97 8F
○	U+25CB	White Circle	○	E2 97 8B
◆	U+25C6	Black Diamond	◆	E2 97 86
☀	U+2600	Black Sun With Rays	☀	E2 98 80
☎	U+260E	Black Telephone	☎	E2 98 8E
☺	U+263A	White Smiling Face	☺	E2 98 BA
♠	U+2660	Black Spade Suit	♠	E2 99 A0
♣	U+2663	Black Club Suit	♣	E2 99 A3
♥	U+2665	Black Heart Suit	♥	E2 99 A5
♦	U+2666	Black Diamond Suit	♦	E2 99 A6
♪	U+266A	Eighth Note	♪	E2 99 AA
⚡	U+26A1	High Voltage Sign	⚡	E2 9A A1
☕	U+2615	Hot Beverage	☕	E2 98 95
★	U+2605	Black Star	★	E2 98 85
✓	U+2713	Check Mark	✓	E2 9C 93
✔	U+2714	Heavy Check Mark	✔	E2 9C 94
✗	U+2717	Ballot X	✗	E2 9C 97
✘	U+2718	Heavy Ballot X	✘	E2 9C 98
✂	U+2702	Black Scissors	✂	E2 9C 82
✉	U+2709	Envelope	✉	E2 9C 89
❤	U+2764	Heavy Black Heart	❤	E2 9D A4
😀	U+1F600	Grinning Face	😀	F0 9F 98 80
😂	U+1F602	Face With Tears Of Joy	😂	F0 9F 98 82
👍	U+1F44D	Thumbs Up Sign	👍	F0 9F 91 8D
🔥	U+1F525	Fire	🔥	F0 9F 94 A5
🎉	U+1F389	Party Popper	🎉	F0 9F 8E 89

Sources: Unicode Consortium: Unicode Character Database: UnicodeData.txt; Unicode Consortium: Unicode Character Database: Blocks.txt; Unicode Consortium: Unicode Character Code Charts

Unicode Characters and Symbols

How Unicode code points work

Punctuation, currency and letterlike symbols

Greek letters, math and number forms

Arrows, shapes, symbols and emoji

References

Frequently asked questions