Search Unicode characters by name, code point, or block with copy-to-clipboard and encoding display.
Unicode gives every character three separate identities: a code point like U+03A9, a formal name like GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA, and a glyph. This tool accepts any one of them - a name fragment, a hex code point, or a block name - and returns the matching records: the rendered character, its official name, its block, and the byte sequences it produces in UTF-8 and UTF-16, each with one-click copy. What most users get wrong: the glyph is not the identity. Visually identical characters such as OMEGA (U+03A9) and OHM SIGN (U+2126) are distinct code points, and only the name or the code point tells them apart.
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
U+03A9
Expected output
Ω | GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA | U+03A9 | Block: Greek and Coptic | UTF-8: CE A9 | UTF-16BE: 03 A9
U+03A9 is the Greek capital omega. Because 0x03A9 (937) falls in the two-byte UTF-8 range (U+0080 to U+07FF), its bytes are 11001110 10101001, written CE A9. UTF-16 stores the code point directly as one 16-bit unit, 03 A9 in big-endian order.
Name search matches substrings of official names, case-insensitively: 'omega' finds GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA (U+03A9) and GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA (U+03C9). Code point search accepts hex in common forms - 03A9, U+03A9, u+03a9. Block search takes block names such as 'Greek and Coptic' or 'Emoticons' and returns every character in the range. Multiple matches are listed together, each with its full record.
For a matched character the tool shows the glyph, the official name, the code point, and the hex byte sequences the character produces in UTF-8 and UTF-16. Copy buttons put the actual character on the clipboard, not an escaped form, so pasting into an editor, an HTML file, or an API payload inserts the real glyph. The byte display is where assumptions surface: omega is two bytes (CE A9) in UTF-8, not one.
Name matching is substring-based and case-insensitive, so any official name containing that letter is a match, and common letters appear in hundreds of names. Narrow the query with more of the name ('e with acute'), switch to a code point (U+00E9), or use block search to browse a bounded range.
They are independent encodings of one code point. Omega (U+03A9) is two bytes in both - CE A9 in UTF-8, 03 A9 in UTF-16BE. An emoji like U+1F600 is four bytes in UTF-8 (F0 9F 98 80) and a surrogate pair, also four bytes, in UTF-16 (D8 3D DE 00). Neither is wrong; choose what your consumer expects.
The example and behavioral notes were checked against the browser implementation. Standards and primary references below define the relevant format, formula, or platform behavior.
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