HTML Entity Lookup
Find the HTML entity for a character, or the character for an entity name.
Quick answer: enter your details below and click Look up entity — your result appears instantly, right here in your browser. Nothing you enter is uploaded or stored.
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How to use
- Type a single character, or an entity such as ©.
- Click Look up entity.
- Read the matching character and entity shown.
About this tool
HTML entities let you write characters that have special meaning in markup, such as an ampersand or a less-than sign, without breaking the page. This tool looks a character or an entity name up in a built-in table of common entities and shows both forms. If the input is not in the table, it says so plainly instead of inventing an entity.
Frequently asked questions
Why would I use an entity instead of typing the character?
For characters with markup meaning, like < and &, entities keep the page valid; for symbols, they also help when a file encoding is uncertain.
What if my character is not in the table?
The tool reports no match, since it only covers common entities rather than the full HTML entity list.