Text to Unicode
Paste text to break it into Unicode code points — see each character's U+ value, name, \u escape and UTF-8 bytes.
Text to Unicode
Break any text into its Unicode scalar values and inspect each character in detail.
Inputs
- Text — the string to analyze. Every character (including emoji, accents, and invisible control characters) is listed.
- Output format —
tablefor an aligned ASCII grid, orjsonfor an array of objects you can feed into code.
What you get per character
- Char — the rendered glyph (control characters and spaces are shown with a visible placeholder so the table stays aligned).
- Code Point — the
U+XXXXnotation. - Dec — the decimal value of the code point.
- Escape — the
\uescape sequence (\uXXXXfor the Basic Multilingual Plane,\u{XXXX}for astral code points such as emoji). - UTF-8 — the UTF-8 bytes in hexadecimal.
- Name — the official Unicode character name.
Handy for spotting look-alike or invisible characters, debugging text-encoding problems, and writing escape sequences for source code. Everything runs locally in your browser.
FAQ
Why does a single emoji show up as several rows?
The tool lists one row per Unicode scalar value, and many emoji are sequences
of several code points. A thumbs-up with a skin tone, for example, is
U+1F44D followed by the modifier U+1F3FD, and family emoji are joined
with invisible U+200D (ZERO WIDTH JOINER) characters — each part gets its
own row, which is exactly how you spot them.
Why do some escapes look like A and others like \u{1F600}?
Code points up to U+FFFF (the Basic Multilingual Plane) fit the classic
four-digit \uXXXX form. Anything above that — emoji, many historic scripts —
can't, so the tool emits the braced \u{XXXX} form used by Rust and modern
JavaScript. The UTF-8 column shows the same character as its raw bytes
(4 bytes for astral code points).
What are the · and ␠ symbols in the Char column?
They're display placeholders, not the actual characters: control characters
are shown as · and a plain space as ␠ so the ASCII table stays aligned.
The real identity is in the other columns — a control character with no
official Unicode name is labeled <control> in the Name column.
Can I get the breakdown as data instead of a table?
Yes — switch the output format to json to get an array of objects with
char, codePoint, decimal, escape, utf8 and name keys, ready to
feed into a script. The default table format is the aligned ASCII grid.
Developer & Automation Access
Run it from the terminal
Same engine as this page, headless — via the gizza CLI:
gizza tool text-to-unicode "Héllo 😀"New to the CLI? Get gizza →
Open it by URL
Pre-fill and auto-run this tool with query parameters — the names match the API/CLI:
https://gizza.ai/tools/text-to-unicode/?text=H%C3%A9llo%20%F0%9F%98%80&format=tableMachine-readable descriptor: tool.json — title + parameters JSON Schema for agents.