Look Up Unicode Symbols and Emojis

When you need a specific Unicode character, emoji, or symbol, these are the canonical references:

Emoji

• Emojipedia — The definitive emoji reference. All emoji names are official Unicode Character Database (CLDR) names; code points are part of the Unicode Standard. Search by name, browse by category, or look up by Unicode version.¹
• Unicode Full Emoji List — The official Unicode Consortium chart, showing images from multiple vendors, CLDR names, and version history.²

General Unicode characters

• Unicode Character Table — Browse or search all Unicode code points. Organized by blocks and categories.³
  • Unicode Arrows — Comprehensive arrow symbol set.⁴
  • Unicode Superscripts and Subscripts — Superscript/subscript digits and letters.⁵

Tips

• Copy the character directly from these sites, or use the code point (e.g. U+1F600 for 😀) in your editor or shell.
• In Bash, use $'\uXXXX' or $'\UXXXXXXXX' to emit Unicode by code point.
• In Python, use chr(0x1F600) or "\U0001F600".

Related: Unicode (encoding concepts), emoji (specific symbols).

Sources

• Emojipedia — Homepage
• Unicode Character Table — Homepage
• Unicode Full Emoji List, v17.0
• Unicode Arrow Symbols — Unicode Character Table
• Superscript and Subscript Numbers — Unicode Character Table

See also

• Unicode
• emoji

Footnotes

1. Emojipedia — Homepage ↩

2. Unicode Full Emoji List, v17.0 ↩

3. Unicode Character Table — Homepage ↩

4. Unicode Arrow Symbols — Unicode Character Table ↩

5. Superscript and Subscript Numbers — Unicode Character Table ↩