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Browse writing systems from around the world — Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Bengali, and more — with character names, pronunciation, Unicode values, and example words.
Alphabet Explorer is a character-by-character reference for 19 writing systems — Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Hiragana, Katakana, Hangul, Thai, Urdu and eight Indic scripts — where tapping any letter shows its name, its romanised pronunciation, its Unicode code point and an example word in the language. It lays each script out in its own reading direction, so the three right-to-left scripts render and navigate right-to-left, and it can read a character aloud through the browser's speech synthesis. Each letter can be copied straight to the clipboard.
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Pick a script from the switcher bar dropdown — 19 are bundled, from Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to Hindi (Devanagari), Japanese Hiragana, Korean Hangul, Thai and Urdu — or step through them with the Previous script and Next script arrows. The badge beside the name shows the script family and whether it runs LTR or RTL.
Click any tile in the character grid, or focus the grid and use the left and right arrow keys, to load that letter into the detail card. The line under the grid reads 'Use arrow keys to navigate · showing X of Y', and the search box filters the characters by symbol, name or pronunciation.
Read the selected character's Name, Pronunciation, Unicode and Example panels, press the speaker button to hear it through your browser's speech synthesis, then hit Copy — the label flips to 'Copied' for about a second and a half — to put the character on your clipboard.
Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu grids lay out and arrow-key through right-to-left instead of being forced into Latin order.
Name, pronunciation, U+ code point and an example word — not just a glyph you have to identify yourself.
Filter by glyph, letter name or pronunciation, so "theta" and "θ" both land on the same tile.
24, from Alpha (Α, U+0391) to Omega (Ω, U+03A9). Greek is the oldest documented alphabet still in use, and its letters double as standard symbols across mathematics and the sciences.
46 basic characters, listed here alongside the 45 basic Katakana. The two are parallel syllabaries for the same sounds — Hiragana is used for native Japanese words and grammar, Katakana mainly for loanwords and emphasis.
Three of the 19: Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu. The grid switches to RTL layout for those, and the left and right arrow keys swap so that "next character" always means the next one in reading order.
Select the character and its U+ value is shown in the detail panel — Greek Alpha is U+0391, Cyrillic А is U+0410, Latin A is U+0041. Code points are what you need when writing a regex range, subsetting a font or debugging text that renders as boxes.