Unicode: Code Point (Char ID)
What is Code Point
Code Point is a integer number that is a unique ID for a character in unicode.
Code point starts at 0.
Code Point is represented either in decimal or Hexadecimal.
| char | name | code point | code point in Hexadecimal |
|---|---|---|---|
| a | LATIN SMALL LETTER A | 97 | 61 |
| ฮฑ | GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA | 945 | 3B1 |
| ๐ฆ | BUTTERFLY | 129419 | 1F98B |
| LINE FEED (non-printable) | LINE FEED | 10 | A |
Code Point may be non-printable โcharacterโ
A Code Point may be space, non-breaking space, hair space, word joiner, ASCII control character (e.g. Null, End of Transmission, Form Feed, Carriage return, Horizontal Tab, Bell, Backspace, etc), byte order mark, right to left mark, surrogate pair, etc.
Standard Notation for Code Point
The standard notation for code point is โU+โ followed by its code point in Hexadecimal. e.g.
U+3B1
How to Find a Character's Code Point
- Paste the character in Unicode Search ๐
How to Find a Character, Given Its Code Point
- Paste the character's code point in Unicode Search ๐
Unicode and Encoding Explained
- Unicode: Character Set, Encoding, UTF-8, Code Point
- Unicode: Code Point (Char ID)
- Unicode: Character Name
- ASCII Characters
- Unicode: Basic Multilingual Plane
- Unicode: UTF-8 Encoding
- Unicode: UTF-16 Encoding
- Unicode: Surrogate Pair
- Unicode: Byte Order (Endianness)
- Unicode: BOM, Byte Order Mark
- Set Text Editor File Encoding
- Unicode: Letter Character
- Unicode: Variation Selector