Ascii Code Table and Unicode Reference for HTML

Ever wondered how some people add those special characters, or language characters that are added to posts or webpages? Well they are called Unicode / ASCII codes and there are thousands of them. Here are some examples; ☼ ♺ ◴ ✆ ⚽ ⓼ ⏏ (Not seeing a sun, recycle, clock, telephone, football, number 8 in a circle and eject character? Not to worry, not all systems are setup to display all ASCII Codes). Interestingly these are all text characters and can be easily added to a webpage by typing &# followed immediately by the Unicode / ASCII code and then a semicolon “;” character. You can use these codes anywhere you can insert HTML. For example, below are the characters for ⌨ through to &#9100, you can click this table below to open up the full list of extended codes. Depending on your system and browser, some of the Unicode / ASCII characters may not be visible, however if you are running a recent browser, all 54,999 should be. You can also copy and paste the characters from the tables. For more, open AndMine’s Code Reference Tables.



The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is one of the most used character encoding in computing. Originally a 7-bit character set, ASCII stands for a standard code for information and has 128 characters, control characters, printable characters, lowercase letters, numbers and punctuation marks. Over time extended ASCII added more character ranging options like box drawing symbols and other character codes for design and formatting. ASCII is a 7-bit character system but modern computing uses Unicode characters which goes way beyond ASCII to support global languages. Still ASCII table is important for developers and students as it is the foundation of how text, data and communication systems work at the most basic level.