   ___   _________________  ___     ______ ____
  / _ | / __/ ___/  _/  _/ / _ \___<  /_  /_  /
 / __ |_\ \/ /___/ /_/ /  / // /___/ / __/ / /
/_/ |_/___/\___/___/___/  \___/   /_/____//_/

ASCII Table

All 128 ASCII characters with their decimal, hexadecimal, octal, binary and HTML codes. Tap a row to copy the character.

Seven switches, one character

Every ASCII character is just seven on/off bits. Flip them and watch the character change. The table was laid out on purpose: letters start at 65 and 97 so that a single bit separates upper and lower case.

A= 65 · 0x41

Uppercase letter. Flip bit 5 (value 32) to get the lowercase one.

Full ASCII chart (0–127)

Find a character or code

Dec	Hex	Oct	Binary	Char	HTML	Description
0	00	000	0000000	NUL		Null
1	01	001	0000001	SOH		Control character
2	02	002	0000010	STX		Control character
3	03	003	0000011	ETX		Control character
4	04	004	0000100	EOT		Control character
5	05	005	0000101	ENQ		Control character
6	06	006	0000110	ACK		Control character
7	07	007	0000111	BEL		Bell
8	08	010	0001000	BS		Backspace
9	09	011	0001001	HT		Horizontal tab
10	0A	012	0001010	LF		Line feed (new line)
11	0B	013	0001011	VT		Vertical tab
12	0C	014	0001100	FF		Form feed
13	0D	015	0001101	CR		Carriage return
14	0E	016	0001110	SO		Control character
15	0F	017	0001111	SI		Control character
16	10	020	0010000	DLE		Control character
17	11	021	0010001	DC1		Control character
18	12	022	0010010	DC2		Control character
19	13	023	0010011	DC3		Control character
20	14	024	0010100	DC4		Control character
21	15	025	0010101	NAK		Control character
22	16	026	0010110	SYN		Control character
23	17	027	0010111	ETB		Control character
24	18	030	0011000	CAN		Control character
25	19	031	0011001	EM		Control character
26	1A	032	0011010	SUB		Control character
27	1B	033	0011011	ESC		Escape
28	1C	034	0011100	FS		Control character
29	1D	035	0011101	GS		Control character
30	1E	036	0011110	RS		Control character
31	1F	037	0011111	US		Control character
32	20	040	0100000	Space
33	21	041	0100001	!	!
34	22	042	0100010	"	"
35	23	043	0100011	#	#
36	24	044	0100100	$	$
37	25	045	0100101	%	%
38	26	046	0100110	&	&
39	27	047	0100111	'	'
40	28	050	0101000	(	(
41	29	051	0101001	)	)
42	2A	052	0101010	*	*
43	2B	053	0101011	+	+
44	2C	054	0101100	,	,
45	2D	055	0101101	-	-
46	2E	056	0101110	.	.
47	2F	057	0101111	/	/
48	30	060	0110000	0	0
49	31	061	0110001	1	1
50	32	062	0110010	2	2
51	33	063	0110011	3	3
52	34	064	0110100	4	4
53	35	065	0110101	5	5
54	36	066	0110110	6	6
55	37	067	0110111	7	7
56	38	070	0111000	8	8
57	39	071	0111001	9	9
58	3A	072	0111010	:	:
59	3B	073	0111011	;	;
60	3C	074	0111100	<	<
61	3D	075	0111101	=	=
62	3E	076	0111110	>	>
63	3F	077	0111111	?	?
64	40	100	1000000	@	@
65	41	101	1000001	A	A
66	42	102	1000010	B	B
67	43	103	1000011	C	C
68	44	104	1000100	D	D
69	45	105	1000101	E	E
70	46	106	1000110	F	F
71	47	107	1000111	G	G
72	48	110	1001000	H	H
73	49	111	1001001	I	I
74	4A	112	1001010	J	J
75	4B	113	1001011	K	K
76	4C	114	1001100	L	L
77	4D	115	1001101	M	M
78	4E	116	1001110	N	N
79	4F	117	1001111	O	O
80	50	120	1010000	P	P
81	51	121	1010001	Q	Q
82	52	122	1010010	R	R
83	53	123	1010011	S	S
84	54	124	1010100	T	T
85	55	125	1010101	U	U
86	56	126	1010110	V	V
87	57	127	1010111	W	W
88	58	130	1011000	X	X
89	59	131	1011001	Y	Y
90	5A	132	1011010	Z	Z
91	5B	133	1011011	[	[
92	5C	134	1011100	\	\
93	5D	135	1011101	]	]
94	5E	136	1011110	^	^
95	5F	137	1011111	_	_
96	60	140	1100000	`	`
97	61	141	1100001	a	a
98	62	142	1100010	b	b
99	63	143	1100011	c	c
100	64	144	1100100	d	d
101	65	145	1100101	e	e
102	66	146	1100110	f	f
103	67	147	1100111	g	g
104	68	150	1101000	h	h
105	69	151	1101001	i	i
106	6A	152	1101010	j	j
107	6B	153	1101011	k	k
108	6C	154	1101100	l	l
109	6D	155	1101101	m	m
110	6E	156	1101110	n	n
111	6F	157	1101111	o	o
112	70	160	1110000	p	p
113	71	161	1110001	q	q
114	72	162	1110010	r	r
115	73	163	1110011	s	s
116	74	164	1110100	t	t
117	75	165	1110101	u	u
118	76	166	1110110	v	v
119	77	167	1110111	w	w
120	78	170	1111000	x	x
121	79	171	1111001	y	y
122	7A	172	1111010	z	z
123	7B	173	1111011	{	{
124	7C	174	1111100	\|	\|
125	7D	175	1111101	}	}
126	7E	176	1111110	~	~
127	7F	177	1111111	DEL		Delete

ASCII and text art

Classic ASCII art uses only the 95 printable characters from 32 (space) to 126 (~), which is why it still displays correctly everywhere. The box lines ┌─┐ and shades ░▒▓ people often call "ASCII" are actually from IBM's code page 437 – today they live in Unicode's box drawing and block element ranges.

Questions people ask

What is ASCII?

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a 7-bit character code first published in 1963 by the American Standards Association and revised in 1967. It defines 128 codes: 33 control codes and 95 printable characters – letters, digits, punctuation and the space.

Why does ASCII only have 128 characters?

It uses 7 bits, and 2 to the power of 7 is 128. The eighth bit of a byte was left for parity checking on noisy lines; later "extended ASCII" code pages such as Windows-1252 and IBM code page 437 used it for another 128 characters, which is where box-drawing characters came from.

What is the difference between ASCII and Unicode?

Unicode is a superset. Its first 128 code points (U+0000 to U+007F) are exactly ASCII, and UTF-8 encodes them as the same single bytes, so any ASCII file is also a valid UTF-8 file.

What are CR and LF?

Carriage return (13) moved a teletype's print head to the start of the line; line feed (10) advanced the paper. Windows still ends lines with CR LF, while Linux and macOS use LF alone.

What is the ASCII code for a heart?

There isn't one – ASCII has no heart. The <3 emoticon uses two ASCII characters (60 and 51). The ♥ symbol is Unicode U+2665; on the old IBM PC it was code 3 in code page 437, which is why Alt+3 types ♥ on Windows.