The best part about Characters is how it lets you copy characters to the clipboard. With Symbol mode, you can select a character and click it (the app doesn’t support CMD+C) to copy it; with Code mode ...

If you want to create your own special characters and symbols, you can use the Eudcedit tool. Because this tool creates user-defined special characters, it is also known as Private Character Editor.

Sometimes you need to insert a character or symbol into a document that isn't on a standard keyboard. Windows' built-in Character Map works fine but Character Map UWP is a more modern alternative.