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:

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string text = "π or \u03c0";

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Console.WriteLine(text);

Output:

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π or π

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

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using System;

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public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        string text = "π and \u03c0 are\u0020equal"; // U+03C0 U+0020

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        Console.WriteLine(text);

    }

}

Output:

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π and π are equal

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).

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using System;

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public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        string apple = "\uD83C\uDF4F";

        string banana = "\uD83C\uDF4C";

        string cherry = "\uD83C\uDF52";

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        Console.WriteLine(apple);

        Console.WriteLine(banana);

        Console.WriteLine(cherry);

    }

}

Output:

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🍏

🍌

🍒