---
name: "Unicode::CharName"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-unicode-string"
version: "2.10-11"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Unicode::CharName"
---

# Unicode::CharName(3pm)

Look up Unicode character names

## NAME

Unicode::CharName - Look up Unicode character names

## SYNOPSIS

```
 use Unicode::CharName qw(uname ublock);
 print uname(ord('%')), "\n";
 print ublock(0x0300), "\n";
```

## DESCRIPTION

This module provide a two functions named **uname()** and **ublock()**.  The **uname()** function will return the Unicode character name for the given code (a number between 0 and 0x10FFFF).  Unicode character names are written in upper-case ASCII letters, and are strings like:

```
  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
  LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
  CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH 7C80
  HANGUL SYLLABLE PWILH
```

The **ublock()** will return the name of the Unicode character block that the given character belongs to.

## SEE ALSO

Unicode::String

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1997,2005 Gisle Aas.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Name table extracted from the Unicode 4.1 Character Database. Copyright (c) 1991-2005 Unicode, Inc. All Rights reserved.