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shapecatcher draw the unicode character you want drawbox about fonts contact draw fill erase clear recognize draw something in the box let shapecatcher help you find the most similar unicode characters currently there are 11 817 unicode glyphs in the database japanese korean and chinese characters are not yet supported unicode character recognition this is a tool to help you find unicode characters finding a specific character whose name you don t know is cumbersome on shapecatcher com all you need to know is the shape of the character how do i use it draw your character as best you can in the drawbox you can do this by clicking and holding the left mouse button and moving around you can switch to a fill and erase tool aswell new draw as many strokes as you need to then click recognize to start the recognition if you want to clear the canvas and the results click on clear my character isn t found it might simply not be in the database yet for the time being i only use glyphs from free unicode fonts to avoid licensing problems the algorithms behind the character recognition could handle many more characters so i hope to extend the database in the near future see the unicode list if you want to know which unicode blocks are currently supported if you can t find chinese japanese or korean glyphs it is because i have yet to find a good free cjk font to use google recently created noto which aims to offer free high quality typefaces for all languages with a very permissive license apache 2 0 the cjk font they include seems to be excellent too i do have plans to include it but sadly i m currently not having much time to improve shapecatcher alternatively shapecatcher might not perform well on your character try to draw it as precisely as you can drop me an e mail if you think that the results are particularly disappointing help it doesn t work at all if you get a bad gateway error the recognition engine can t be reached or is currently offline feel free to inform me by e mail about it i like this project how can i help you spread the word also both praise and criticism are very welcome do you support latex characters no but if you want the commands for special characters in latex take a look at detexify i want to know more how does this work more information is on the about page 2011 2025 benjamin milde