InsertAnyChar

Description	Insert any character by exploring or searching in the entire Unicode chart
Updated	February 17, 2026     (3 months ago)
Browsers	Chrome, Firefox, etc. (ES2021+ needed)
Source	User:Nardog/InsertAnyChar.js

This script allows you to quickly look up a Unicode name or block and insert any character while editing. It adds a button () to the WikiEditor toolbar, which opens a sidebar where you can browse the Unicode chart and browse blocks or search by character name.

It uses the sidebar interface from Realtime Preview, so this script's button only appears while that feature is turned off.

Add the following to your common.js or global.js:

mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Nardog/InsertAnyChar.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

Or you may enable the script installer in Preferences → Gadgets and click "Install" in the infobox on this page.

Characters

List of characters. Each entry consists of a preview, the character name, the name of the block it belongs to, and the hexadecimal code point. Surrogates are excluded.

Clicking an entry inserts the character into the edit textbox. Clicking the block name makes the list contain only the characters from the block.

The names, originally in all caps, are put in title case for legibility. This is programmatically done so some names may have inappropriate capitalization.

When showing only a block, the block name at the top is linked to the official PDF on unicode.org, so the characters can be viewed even if your computer doesn't have font support. Clicking Reset resets the list but retains the position so you can browse adjacent blocks.

Filter

Toggles the textbox for filtering the list. Search terms must be alphanumeric (there is no phrasal search). Negation is possible by prefixing a term with a hyphen (e.g. cjk ideograph -extension). Exact matches appear before initial matches, which appear before partial matches. For the CJK Ideograph, Tangut Ideograph, and Private Use blocks, a term may also match hexadecimal code points.

Compact view

Makes the list two-dimensional with only the previews shown. The character names, blocks, and code points will be available in tooltips.

Blocks

List of blocks. Clicking an entry makes the Characters tab active with only the characters from the block.

Filter

Toggles the textbox for filtering the list. Unlike the filter for characters, this doesn't reorder the list (i.e. only hides the blocks that don't match the query).

Preview options

Font stack

Choose from "Serif first" and "Sans-serif first".

Language

IETF language tag, useful for characters under Han unification.

Variation selector

Variation selector to be appended after each character in preview (but not to be inserted into the textbox). 15 disables emojis, 16 forces them.

History

Toggles the list of characters you've inserted at the top of the panel.

The script fetches the entire Unicode data from Wiktionary when the button is clicked and stores it, so it may be memory-intensive.

You can customize the font stack for the characters in the list by specifying font-family for .insertanychar-char (and .insertanychar-sans .insertanychar-char for "Sans-serif first") in your CSS.