ASCII Character Chart in Hexadecimal and Binary

Updated: Sep 26, 2026

ASCII, stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a 7-bit character code where each individual bit represents a unique character for total of 128 characters. The extended ASCII character codes are 8-bits for a total of 256 characters. The first 32 characters (0 through 31) are unprintable control characters, where as characters 32 through 127 are characters typically found on US/American Keyboards. The characters 128-255 (not shown) are the extended set which contains additional characterscommon to other langauages that use a Latin Character Set.

Hex	Binary	Char	Description
00	00000000	NUL	Null
01	00000001	SOH	Start of Heading
02	00000010	STX	Start of Text
03	00000011	ETX	End of Text
04	00000100	EOT	End of Transmission
05	00000101	ENQ	Enquiry
06	00000110	ACK	Acknowledge
07	00000111	BEL	Bell
08	00001000	BS	Backspace
09	00001001	HT	Horizontal Tab
0A	00001010	LF	NL Line Feed, New Line
0B	00001011	VT	Vertical Tab
0C	00001100	FF	NP Form Feed, New Page
0D	00001101	CR	Carriage Return
0E	00001110	SO	Shift Out
0F	00001111	SI	Shift In
10	00010000	DLE	Data Link Escape
11	00010001	DC1	Device Control 1
12	00010010	DC2	Device Control 2
13	00010011	DC3	Device Control 3
14	00010100	DC4	Device Control 4
15	00010101	NAK	Negative Acknowledge
16	00010110	SYN	Synchronous Idle
17	00010111	ETB	End of Transmission Block
18	00011000	CAN	Cancel
19	00011001	EM	End of Medium
1A	00011010	SUB	Substitute
1B	00011011	ESC	Escape
1C	00011100	FS	File Separator
1D	00011101	GS	Group Separator
1E	00011110	RS	Record Separator
1F	00011111	US	Unit Separator
20	00100000	(Space)	Space
21	00100001	!	Exclamation Mark
22	00100010	"	Double Quote
23	00100011	#	Hash or Number
24	00100100	$	Dollar Sign
25	00101001	%	Percent
26	00100110	&	Ampersand
27	00100111	'	Single Quote
28	00101000	(	Left Parenthesis
29	00101001	)	Right Parenthesis
2A	00101010	*	Asterisk
2B	00101011	+	Plus
2C	00101100	,	Comma
2D	00101101	-	Hyphen
2E	00101110	.	Period
2F	00101111	/	Slash
30	00110000	0	Digit 0
31	00110001	1	Digit 1
32	00110010	2	Digit 2
33	00110011	3	Digit 3
34	00110100	4	Digit 4
35	00110101	5	Digit 5
36	00110110	6	Digit 6
37	00110111	7	Digit 7
38	00111000	8	Digit 8
39	00111001	9	Digit 9
3A	00111010	:	Colon
3B	00111011	;	Semicolon
3C	00111100	<	Less Than
3D	00111101	=	Equals
3E	00111110	>	Greater Than
3F	00111111	?	Question Mark
40	01000000	@	At Sign
41	01000001	A	Uppercase A
42	01000010	B	Uppercase B
43	01000011	C	Uppercase C
44	01000100	D	Uppercase D
45	01000101	E	Uppercase E
46	01000110	F	Uppercase F
47	01000111	G	Uppercase G
48	01001000	H	Uppercase H
49	01001001	I	Uppercase I
4A	01001010	J	Uppercase J
4B	01001011	K	Uppercase K
4C	01001100	L	Uppercase L
4D	01001101	M	Uppercase M
4E	01001110	N	Uppercase N
4F	01001111	O	Uppercase O
50	01010000	P	Uppercase P
51	01010001	Q	Uppercase Q
52	01010010	R	Uppercase R
53	01010011	S	Uppercase S
54	01010100	T	Uppercase T
55	01010101	U	Uppercase U
56	01010110	V	Uppercase V
57	01010111	W	Uppercase W
58	01011000	X	Uppercase X
59	01011001	Y	Uppercase Y
5A	01011010	Z	Uppercase Z
5B	01011011	[	Left Square Bracket
5C	01011100	\	Backslash
5D	01011101	]	Right Square Bracket
5E	01011110	^	Caret
5F	01011111	_	Underscore
60	01100000	`	Backtick/Grave Accent
61	01100001	a	Lowercase a
62	01100010	b	Lowercase b
63	01100011	c	Lowercase c
64	01100100	d	Lowercase d
65	01100101	e	Lowercase e
66	01100110	f	Lowercase f
67	01100111	g	Lowercase g
68	01101000	h	Lowercase h
69	01101001	i	Lowercase i
6A	01101010	j	Lowercase j
6B	01101011	k	Lowercase k
6C	01101100	l	Lowercase l
6D	01101101	m	Lowercase m
6E	01101110	n	Lowercase n
6F	01101111	o	Lowercase o
70	01110000	p	Lowercase p
71	01110001	q	Lowercase q
72	01110010	r	Lowercase r
73	01110011	s	Lowercase s
74	01110100	t	Lowercase t
75	01110101	u	Lowercase u
76	01110110	v	Lowercase v
77	01110111	w	Lowercase w
78	01111000	x	Lowercase x
79	01111001	y	Lowercase y
7A	01111010	z	Lowercase z
7B	01111011	{	Left Curly Brace
7C	01111100	\|	Pipe/Vertical Bar
7D	01111101	}	Right Curly Brace
7E	01111110	~	Tilde
7F	01111111	DEL	Delete

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