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Returns the name of a Unicode codepoint sequence (= more than one codepoint involved), if one exists.
Unicode version: 17.0.0 (September 2025)
Emoji version: 17.0 (September 2025)
IVD version: 2025-07-14 (July 2025)
Usage
require"unicode/sequence_name"Unicode::SequenceName.of"‼︎"# => "DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK (text style)"Unicode::SequenceName.of"㓟︀"# => "CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F81F"Unicode::SequenceName.of"င︀"# => "MYANMAR LETTER NGA (dotted form)"Unicode::SequenceName.of"நி"# => "TAMIL SYLLABLE NI"Unicode::SequenceName.of"🇺🇳"# => "Flag: UNITED NATIONS"Unicode::SequenceName.of"🏴"# => "SCOTLAND"Unicode::SequenceName.of"🧑🦱"# => "PERSON: CURLY HAIR"Unicode::SequenceName.of"👨🍼"# => "MAN FEEDING BABY"Unicode::SequenceName.of"❤️🔥"# => "HEART ON FIRE"Unicode::SequenceName.of"🫱🏻🫲🏾"# => "HANDSHAKE: LIGHT SKIN TONE, MEDIUM-DARK SKIN TONE"Unicode::SequenceName.of"🐦⬛"# => "BLACK BIRD"Unicode::SequenceName.of"🙂↔️"# => "HEAD SHAKING HORIZONTALLY"Unicode::SequenceName.of"‘︁"# => "LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (right-justified fullwidth form)"
Names for singular codepoints are not included, but you can use unicode-name for that purpose. This is how you could use both libraries together to get the most relevant name of a character: