Extract Unicode Graphemes
A fast, accurate, and privacy-friendly online tool to extract Unicode grapheme clusters from text. Handles emojis, combining characters, and complex scripts correctly using modern Unicode standards.
Grapheme Extraction Tool
Extracted graphemes will appear here.
About This Tool
This tool extracts Unicode grapheme clusters, which represent what users perceive as single characters. Unlike simple code-point or UTF-16 iteration, grapheme extraction correctly handles emojis, accented characters, zero-width joiners, and complex writing systems.
Key Benefits of Using This Tool
- Accurate grapheme segmentation based on Unicode standards
- Works fully in-browser with no data sent to servers
- Correct handling of emojis, flags, and combining marks
- Instant results with zero configuration
- Reliable for international and multilingual text
Features
- Uses
Intl.Segmenterfor modern Unicode compliance - Optional grapheme index display
- Responsive, mobile-friendly interface
- Light-mode-only, distraction-free design
- No tracking, no cookies, no analytics
Use Cases
- Building Unicode-safe text editors or validators
- Correctly counting visible characters in user input
- Emoji-aware string processing
- Internationalization (i18n) and localization workflows
- Testing Unicode edge cases in frontend applications
Fun Fact
The family emoji 👨👩👧👦 looks like one character, but it is actually composed of multiple Unicode code points joined together using zero-width joiners. Grapheme segmentation is what makes it feel like a single character to users.
Historical Context
Early text processing systems treated characters as fixed-width bytes. As Unicode evolved to support global writing systems and emojis, the concept of grapheme clusters emerged. Modern standards, implemented through APIs like Intl.Segmenter, finally allow software to process text the way humans actually perceive it.