# phpman > info > Unicode::CharName

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NAME
       [Unicode::CharName](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Unicode%3A%3ACharName/markdown) - Look up Unicode character names

SYNOPSIS
        use [Unicode::CharName](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Unicode%3A%3ACharName/markdown) qw(uname ublock);
        print uname(ord('%')), "\n";
        print [ublock(0x0300)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ublock/0x0300/markdown), "\n";

DESCRIPTION
       This module provide a two functions named uname() and ublock().  The
       uname() function will return the Unicode character name for the given
       code (a number between 0 and 0x10FFFF).  Unicode character names are
       written in upper-case ASCII letters, and are strings like:

         LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
         LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
         CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH 7C80
         HANGUL SYLLABLE PWILH

       The ublock() will return the name of the Unicode character block that
       the given character belongs to.

SEE ALSO
       [Unicode::String](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Unicode%3A%3AString/markdown)

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 1997,2005 Gisle Aas.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.

       Name table extracted from the Unicode 4.1 Character Database. Copyright
       (c) 1991-2005 Unicode, Inc. All Rights reserved.

perl v5.34.0                      2022-02-06            Unicode::[CharName(3pm)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/CharName/3pm/markdown)