Command-line tool

chars

brew/chars

Checked 25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC · Listing refreshed from Homebrew, winget, npm, Scoop and cargo; npm packages checked against OSV.dev

Command-line tool to display information about unicode characters

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install chars

Linux

brew install chars

Look up a character by its value

chars 'ß'

Look up a character by its Unicode code point

chars U+1F63C

Look up possible characters given an ambiguous code point

chars 10

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