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Binary & Hex Translator
Convert text to binary, hexadecimal, octal, or decimal — and back again. Instant, client-side, supports any ASCII or Unicode character.
Frequently asked
questions
Each character is converted to its Unicode code point (a number), which is then represented in binary (base 2). For example, "A" has code point 65, which is 01000001 in 8-bit binary.
They are all different ways to represent numbers. Binary uses base 2 (digits 0–1), octal uses base 8 (digits 0–7), hexadecimal uses base 16 (digits 0–9 and A–F). Hex is popular in computing because one hex digit represents exactly 4 bits, making it compact.
Yes — the converter handles full Unicode. Emoji and characters outside ASCII will produce multi-byte binary/hex sequences using their UTF-8 or Unicode code point encoding.