Engineering Reference Tables / Standard ASCII Characters List

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a character encoding standard for text files. ASCII character set is a subset of Unicode consists 128 symbols (letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, punctuation marks, special characters and control characters). Character set symbol represented by a Decimal value ranging from 0 to 127.

Standard ASCII Characters List
Full list of ASCII characters with their letters, symbols and values:

ASCII control characters non printable
Character Name Character ASCII code
Null character NULL 00
Start of Header SOH 01
Start of Text STX 02
End of Text ETX 03
End of Transmission EOT 04
Enquiry ENQ 05
Acknowledgement ACK 06
Bell BEL 07
Backspace BS 08
Horizontal Tab HT 09
Line feed LF 10
Vertical Tab VT 11
Form feed FF 12
Carriage return CR 13
Shift Out SO 14
Shift In SI 15
Data link escape DLE 16
Device control 1 DC1 17
Device control 2 DC2 18
Device control 3 DC3 19
Device control 4 DC4 20
NAK Negative acknowledge NAK 21
Synchronous idle SYN 22
End of Transmission. block ETB 23
Cancel CAN 24
End of medium EM 25
Substitute SUB 26
Escape ESC 27
File separator FS 28
Group separator GS 29
Record separator RS 30
Unit separator US 31
Delete DEL 127


Printable ASCII characters
Character Name Character ASCII code
Space space 32
Exclamation mark ! 33
Double quotes  " 34
Number sign # 35
Dollar sign $ 36
Percent sign % 37
Ampersand & 38
Single quote or Apostrophe ' 39
round brackets or parentheses, opening round bracket ( 40
parentheses or round brackets, closing parentheses ) 41
Asterisk * 42
Plus sign + 43
Comma , 44
Hyphen , minus sign - 45
Dot, full stop . 46
Slash , forward slash , fraction bar , division slash / 47
number zero 0 48
number one 1 49
number two 2 50
number three 3 51
number four 4 52
number five 5 53
number six 6 54
number seven 7 55
number eight 8 56
number nine 9 57
Colon : 58
Semicolon ; 59
Less-than sign < 60
Equals sign = 61
Greater-than sign > 62
Question mark ? 63
At sign @ 64
Capital letter A A 65
Capital letter B B 66
Capital letter C C 67
Capital letter D D 68
Capital letter E E 69
Capital letter F F 70
Capital letter G G 71
Capital letter H H 72
Capital letter I I 73
Capital letter J J 74
Capital letter K K 75
Capital letter L L 76
Capital letter M M 77
Capital letter N N 78
Capital letter O O 79
Capital letter P P 80
Capital letter Q Q 81
Capital letter R R 82
Capital letter S S 83
Capital letter T T 84
Capital letter U U 85
Capital letter V V 86
Capital letter W W 87
Capital letter X X 88
Capital letter Y Y 89
Capital letter Z Z 90
square brackets or box brackets, opening bracket [ 91
Backslash , reverse slash \ 92
box brackets or square brackets, closing bracket ] 93
Circumflex accent or Caret ^ 94
underscore , under strike , under bar or low line _ 95
Grave accent ` 96
Lowercase letter a a 97
Lowercase letter b b 98
Lowercase letter c c 99
Lowercase letter d d 100
Lowercase letter e e 101
Lowercase letter f f 102
Lowercase letter g g 103
Lowercase letter h h 104
Lowercase letter i i 105
Lowercase letter j j 106
Lowercase letter k k 107
Lowercase letter l l 108
Lowercase letter m m 109
Lowercase letter n n 110
Lowercase letter o o 111
Lowercase letter p p 112
Lowercase letter q q 113
Lowercase letter r r 114
Lowercase letter s s 115
Lowercase letter t t 116
Lowercase letter u u 117
Lowercase letter v v 118
Lowercase letter w w 119
Lowercase letter x x 120
Lowercase letter y y 121
Lowercase letter z z 122
braces or curly brackets, opening braces { 123
Vertical bar, vbar, vertical line or vertical slash | 124
curly brackets or braces, closing curly brackets } 125
Tilde ; swung dash ~ 126


ASCII Extended Characters
Character Name Character ASCII code
Majuscule C-cedilla Ç 128
letter u with umlaut or diaeresis , u-umlaut ü 129
letter e with acute accent or e-acute é 130
letter a with circumflex accent or a-circumflex â 131
letter a with umlaut or diaeresis , a-umlaut ä 132
letter a with grave accent à 133
letter a with a ring å 134
Minuscule c-cedilla ç 135
letter e with circumflex accent or e-circumflex ê 136
letter e with umlaut or diaeresis ; e-umlauts ë 137
letter e with grave accent è 138
letter i with umlaut or diaeresis ; i-umlaut ï 139
letter i with circumflex accent or i-circumflex î 140
letter i with grave accent ì 141
letter A with umlaut or diaeresis ; A-umlaut Ä 142
Capital letter A with a ring Å 143
Capital letter E with acute accent or E-acute É 144
Latin diphthong ae in lowercase æ 145
Latin diphthong AE in uppercase Æ 146
letter o with circumflex accent or o-circumflex ô 147
letter o with umlaut or diaeresis ; o-umlaut ö 148
letter o with grave accent ò 149
letter u with circumflex accent or u-circumflex û 150
letter u with grave accent ù 151
Lowercase letter y with diaeresis ÿ 152
Letter O with umlaut or diaeresis ; O-umlaut Ö 153
Letter U with umlaut or diaeresis ; U-umlaut Ü 154
Lowercase slashed zero or empty set ø 155
Pound sign £ 156
Uppercase slashed zero or empty set Ø 157
Multiplication sign × 158
Function sign ; f with hook sign ; florin sign ƒ 159
Lowercase letter a with acute accent or a-acute á 160
Lowercase letter i with acute accent or i-acute í 161
Lowercase letter o with acute accent or o-acute ó 162
Lowercase letter u with acute accent or u-acute ú 163
eñe, enie, spanish letter enye, lowercase n with tilde ñ 164
Spanish letter enye, uppercase N with tilde, EÑE, enie Ñ 165
feminine ordinal indicator ª 166
masculine ordinal indicator º 167
Inverted question marks ¿ 168
Registered trademark symbol ® 169
Logical negation symbol ¬ 170
One half ½ 171
Quarter, one fourth ¼ 172
Inverted exclamation marks ¡ 173
Angle quotes, guillemets, right-pointing quotation mark « 174
Guillemets, angle quotes, left-pointing quotation marks » 175
Graphic character, low density dotted ░ 176
Graphic character, medium density dotted ▒ 177
Graphic character, high density dotted ▓ 178
Box drawing character single vertical line │ 179
Box drawing character single vertical and left line ┤ 180
Capital letter A with acute accent or A-acute Á 181
Letter A with circumflex accent or A-circumflex  182
Letter A with grave accent À 183
Copyright symbol © 184
Box drawing character double line vertical and left ╣ 185
Box drawing character double vertical line ║ 186
Box drawing character double line upper right corner ╗ 187
Box drawing character double line lower right corner ╝ 188
Cent symbol ¢ 189
YEN and YUAN sign ¥ 190
Box drawing character single line upper right corner ┐ 191
Box drawing character single line lower left corner └ 192
Box drawing character single line horizontal and up ┴ 193
Box drawing character single line horizontal down ┬ 194
Box drawing character single line vertical and right ├ 195
Box drawing character single horizontal line ─ 196
Box drawing character single line horizontal vertical ┼ 197
Lowercase letter a with tilde or a-tilde ã 198
Capital letter A with tilde or A-tilde à 199
Box drawing character double line lower left corner ╚ 200
Box drawing character double line upper left corner ╔ 201
Box drawing character double line horizontal and up ╩ 202
Box drawing character double line horizontal down ╦ 203
Box drawing character double line vertical and right ╠ 204
Box drawing character double horizontal line ═ 205
Box drawing character double line horizontal vertical ╬ 206
Generic currency sign ¤ 207
Lowercase letter eth ð 208
Capital letter Eth Ð 209
Letter E with circumflex accent or E-circumflex Ê 210
Letter E with umlaut or diaeresis, E-umlaut Ë 211
Capital letter E with grave accent È 212
Lowercase dot less i ı 213
Capital letter I with acute accent or I-acute Í 214
Letter I with circumflex accent or I-circumflex Î 215
Letter I with umlaut or diaeresis ; I-umlaut Ï 216
Box drawing character single line lower right corner ┘ 217
Box drawing character single line upper left corner ┌ 218
Block, graphic character █ 219
Bottom half block ▄ 220
Vertical broken bar ¦ 221
Capital letter I with grave accent Ì 222
Top half block ▀ 223
Capital letter O with acute accent or O-acute Ó 224
Letter Eszett ; scharfes S or sharp S ß 225
Letter O with circumflex accent or O-circumflex Ô 226
Capital letter O with grave accent Ò 227
Lowercase letter o with tilde or o-tilde õ 228
Capital letter O with tilde or O-tilde Õ 229
Lowercase letter Mu ; micro sign or micron µ 230
Lowercase letter Thorn þ 231
Capital letter Thorn Þ 232
Capital letter U with acute accent or U-acute Ú 233
Letter U with circumflex accent or U-circumflex Û 234
Capital letter U with grave accent Ù 235
Lowercase letter y with acute accent ý 236
Capital letter Y with acute accent Ý 237
Macron symbol ¯ 238
Acute accent ´ 239
Congruence relation symbol ≡ 240
Plus-minus sign ± 241
underline or underscore ‗ 242
three quarters, three-fourths ¾ 243
Paragraph sign or pilcrow ; end paragraph mark 244
Section sign § 245
The division sign ; Obelus ÷ 246
cedilla ¸ 247
Degree symbol ° 248
Diaresis ¨ 249
Interpunct or space dot • 250
Superscript one, exponent 1, first power ¹ 251
Superscript three, exponent 3, cube, third power ³ 252
Superscript two, exponent 2, square, second power ² 253
black square ■ 254
Non-breaking space or no-break space nbsp 255

Home     Back