Text ↔ Unicode

How to use this text-to-Unicode converter

  1. Type any text — including emoji and non-Latin scripts — in the top box.
  2. Its Unicode code points (U+XXXX) appear below automatically.
  3. Or paste code points in the bottom box to convert back to text.

What is a Unicode code point?

Unicode assigns a unique number to every character in every writing system, plus emoji and symbols — over 149,000 characters as of recent standards. Unlike ASCII's 8-bit limit, Unicode can represent virtually any character used in any language.

Does this work with emoji?

Yes — emoji are regular Unicode characters, so they convert to their code points just like any letter.

What's the difference between Unicode and UTF-8?

Unicode is the standard that assigns numbers to characters; UTF-8 is one way of encoding those numbers as bytes for storage and transmission. This tool shows the raw Unicode code points, not the UTF-8 byte encoding.