# phpman > perldoc > Unicode::CharName

## 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.