C# / .NET - insert unicode character to string

In this article, we would like to show you how to insert unicode character to string in C#.

There are three different ways how to do it:

• with escape character e.g. \u03c0 that is equal to π,
• by pasting character directly to string,
• by converting codes to a string.

Quick solution:

string text = "π or \u03c0";

Console.WriteLine(text);

Output:

π or π

More complicated example

Space is represented by 0x20 (in hex) or 32 (in dec). It is necessary to add 2 additional zeros before code (e.g. \u0020).

using System;

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        string text = "π and \u03c0 are\u0020equal"; // U+03C0 U+0020

        Console.WriteLine(text);
    }
}

Output:

π and π are equal

Directly pasted emojis

In this section you can find some emojis that we pasted directly to the string and received e.g \uD83C\uDF4F for the 🍏 (green apple emoji).

using System;

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        string apple = "\uD83C\uDF4F";
        string banana = "\uD83C\uDF4C";
        string cherry = "\uD83C\uDF52";

        Console.WriteLine(apple);
        Console.WriteLine(banana);
        Console.WriteLine(cherry);
    }
}

Output:

🍏
🍌
🍒