---
name: "utf8lookup"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "uniutils"
version: "2.28-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/utf8lookup"
---

# utf8lookup(1)

Look up Unicode characters from the command line

## NAME

utf8lookup - Look up Unicode characters from the command line

## SYNOPSIS

**utf8lookup \<unicode codepoint as hex text without leading 0x\>**

## DESCRIPTION

*utf8lookup* is a simple bash script that will read a Unicode codepoint as hex without the leading 0x and print out the name of the corresponding character.

## SEE ALSO

uniname

## REFERENCES

Unicode Standard, version 4.1

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

This manual page was written by Mohammed Sameer \<debian@foolab.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

## LICENSE

GNU General Public License