Special Characters Picker

Insert special characters, symbols and emoji. Search any Unicode sign, click to copy. No account, works offline.

Special Characters Picker puts every symbol you need one click away in your Chrome toolbar. Open it, find the character, click it — it is on your clipboard. No sign-in, no account, no hunting through Character Map or a website full of ads. Em dashes, arrows, currency signs, accented letters, Greek letters, math operators, fractions, checkmarks and every emoji in the Unicode standard: over 2,300 characters, organised into clean categories and searchable by plain English name. ⌨️ What This Special Characters Extension Does ➡️ Click any character to copy it instantly — that is the whole flow, one click ➡️ Search by name: type "arrow", "euro", "degree", "heart" or "dash" and get what you meant ➡️ 11 categories: Popular, Arrows, Math, Currency, Punctuation, Letters, Greek, Symbols, Numbers, Brackets and Emoji — plus Recent and Favorites tabs ➡️ Recent tab remembers the last 36 characters you copied, so repeat work is instant ➡️ Favorites: star the characters you use daily and keep them in their own tab ➡️ Compose mode builds a whole string from several characters, then copies it in one go ➡️ Every emoji there is — all 1,900+ of them, in the nine standard emoji groups, with a skin-tone selector ➡️ Live readout shows each character's name, Unicode code point and HTML entity ➡️ Dark mode and light mode, with your choice remembered 👥 Who Finds This Symbol Picker Useful 1️⃣ Writers and editors who need proper em dashes, en dashes, ellipses and curly quotes 2️⃣ Developers copying Unicode code points and HTML entities straight into code 3️⃣ Students and researchers typing math operators, Greek letters and fractions 4️⃣ Designers and marketers building headlines with arrows, stars and bullets 5️⃣ Anyone writing in Spanish, French, German, Polish, Turkish or Czech on an English keyboard 6️⃣ Accountants and analysts inserting currency symbols from any country 7️⃣ Social media managers who want symbols and emoji without leaving the tab 8️⃣ Anyone tired of googling "degree symbol copy paste" several times a week ✨ Why People Like This Character Picker 🔹 One click to copy — no dialog, no confirmation, no extra step 🔹 Search actually understands what you mean: "tick" finds ✓, "money" finds every currency sign 🔹 No account and no sign-in — install it and it works immediately 🔹 Fully offline: nothing is sent anywhere, nothing is tracked 🔹 Your recents and favorites are stored on your device only 🔹 Opens instantly and focuses the search box, so you can just start typing 🔹 Clean, uncluttered layout that fits comfortably in a popup 🔹 Every character shows its real Unicode name, not a guess ⚙️ Features Inside This Unicode Character Picker ⭐ Over 2,300 characters: 450+ hand-picked symbols plus the complete Unicode emoji set ⭐ Popular tab up front, so the common characters need zero searching ⭐ Ranked search across names and keywords — exact matches first, never fuzzy nonsense ⭐ Paste a character into the search box to identify it and see its code point ⭐ Compose tray with backspace, clear and copy-all controls ⭐ Invisible characters like the non-breaking space are shown as a marked box so you can find them ⭐ Numeric HTML entity shown for every character, ready to paste into markup ⭐ Skin-tone selector that applies to every emoji supporting one, remembered between sessions ⭐ Favorites and recents sync into their own tabs automatically ⭐ Keyboard-friendly: the search field is focused the moment the popup opens 🔧 Behind-the-Scenes Tech (Explained Simply) 🎯 Everything runs locally in your browser — there is no server and no network call 🎯 Only the storage permission is requested, purely to remember your recents, favorites and theme 🎯 No host permissions at all: this extension cannot read or change any page you visit 🎯 Manifest V3 — the current Chrome extension standard, secure and up to date 🎯 A clipboard fallback path means a copy never silently fails 💡 Helpful Tips ✅ Pin the extension to your toolbar so the picker is always one click away ✅ Just start typing when it opens — the search box already has focus ✅ Searching looks across every category at once, so you never need to guess the right tab ✅ Hover a character to see its name, code point and HTML entity in the bar at the bottom ✅ Star the five or six characters you use most; they will be waiting in Favorites ✅ Turn on compose mode to build things like x² + y² or ★★★★☆ and copy them in one click ✅ Paste a mystery character into the search box to find out exactly what it is ❓ FAQ ► Do I need an account? No. There is no sign-in, no registration and no email required. Install and use. ► Does it work offline? Yes. Every character is bundled with the extension, so it works with no internet connection. ► Which permissions does it need? Only storage, and only to remember your recent characters, favorites and dark mode choice. It requests no access to the websites you visit. ► Where are my favorites stored? On your device, in Chrome's local storage. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. ► Can I copy several characters at once? Yes — turn on compose mode, click the characters you want, then copy the whole string. ► Does it include emoji? Yes — the complete Unicode emoji set, over 1,900 of them, split into the nine standard groups (Smileys, People, Nature, Food, Travel, Activities, Objects, Signs and Flags). Person emoji follow whichever skin tone you pick. ► Can I see the HTML entity for a character? Yes. Hover any character and the bar at the bottom shows its Unicode code point and numeric HTML entity. ► Why can I not see some characters in the grid? Invisible characters such as the non-breaking space are drawn as a dashed box so they can still be found and copied. 🚀 How to Get Started 1️⃣ Install the extension and pin Special Characters Picker to your toolbar 2️⃣ Click the icon — the picker opens with the search box already focused 3️⃣ Type what you are looking for, or browse the category tabs 4️⃣ Click a character to copy it, then paste wherever you were working 5️⃣ Star your regulars so they are always in the Favorites tab 6️⃣ Need a multi-character string? Switch on compose mode and build it That is all there is to it — a fast, private, no-account symbol picker that saves you a search every single day. Hope it earns a spot on your toolbar! 🙌