diff --git a/CODEOWNERS b/CODEOWNERS
index 80f243e82e..43034ce308 100644
--- a/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/CODEOWNERS
@@ -609,6 +609,7 @@ esphome/components/ufire_ec/* @pvizeli
 esphome/components/ufire_ise/* @pvizeli
 esphome/components/ufm01/* @ljungqvist
 esphome/components/ultrasonic/* @ssieb @swoboda1337
+esphome/components/unicode/* @esphome/core
 esphome/components/update/* @jesserockz
 esphome/components/uponor_smatrix/* @kroimon
 esphome/components/usb_cdc_acm/* @kbx81
diff --git a/esphome/components/font/__init__.py b/esphome/components/font/__init__.py
index a2fad4bc25..732933ba48 100644
--- a/esphome/components/font/__init__.py
+++ b/esphome/components/font/__init__.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ _LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 DOMAIN = "font"
 MULTI_CONF = True
+AUTO_LOAD = ["unicode"]
 
 CODEOWNERS = ["@esphome/core", "@clydebarrow"]
 
diff --git a/esphome/components/font/font.cpp b/esphome/components/font/font.cpp
index 1ed946dadb..2592370b6a 100644
--- a/esphome/components/font/font.cpp
+++ b/esphome/components/font/font.cpp
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #include "esphome/core/color.h"
 #include "esphome/core/hal.h"
 #include "esphome/core/log.h"
+#include "esphome/components/unicode/unicode.h"
 
 namespace esphome::font {
 static const char *const TAG = "font";
@@ -121,108 +122,6 @@ const Glyph *Font::get_glyph_data_(uint32_t unicode_letter) {
 }
 #endif
 
-/**
- *  Attempt to extract a 32 bit Unicode codepoint from a UTF-8 string.
- *  If successful, return the codepoint and set the length to the number of bytes read.
- *  If the end of the string has been reached and a valid codepoint has not been found, return 0 and set the length to
- * 0.
- *
- * @param utf8_str The input string
- * @param length Pointer to length storage
- * @return The extracted code point
- */
-static uint32_t extract_unicode_codepoint(const char *utf8_str, size_t *length) {
-  // Safely cast to uint8_t* for correct bitwise operations on bytes
-  const uint8_t *current = reinterpret_cast<const uint8_t *>(utf8_str);
-  uint32_t code_point = 0;
-  uint8_t c1 = *current++;
-
-  // check for end of string
-  if (c1 == 0) {
-    *length = 0;
-    return 0;
-  }
-
-  // --- 1-Byte Sequence: 0xxxxxxx (ASCII) ---
-  if (c1 < 0x80) {
-    // Valid ASCII byte.
-    code_point = c1;
-    // Optimization: No need to check for continuation bytes.
-  }
-  // --- 2-Byte Sequence: 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx ---
-  else if ((c1 & 0xE0) == 0xC0) {
-    uint8_t c2 = *current++;
-
-    // Error Check 1: Check if c2 is a valid continuation byte (10xxxxxx)
-    if ((c2 & 0xC0) != 0x80) {
-      *length = 0;
-      return 0;
-    }
-
-    code_point = (c1 & 0x1F) << 6;
-    code_point |= (c2 & 0x3F);
-
-    // Error Check 2: Overlong check (2-byte must be > 0x7F)
-    if (code_point <= 0x7F) {
-      *length = 0;
-      return 0;
-    }
-  }
-  // --- 3-Byte Sequence: 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx ---
-  else if ((c1 & 0xF0) == 0xE0) {
-    uint8_t c2 = *current++;
-    uint8_t c3 = *current++;
-
-    // Error Check 1: Check continuation bytes
-    if (((c2 & 0xC0) != 0x80) || ((c3 & 0xC0) != 0x80)) {
-      *length = 0;
-      return 0;
-    }
-
-    code_point = (c1 & 0x0F) << 12;
-    code_point |= (c2 & 0x3F) << 6;
-    code_point |= (c3 & 0x3F);
-
-    // Error Check 2: Overlong check (3-byte must be > 0x7FF)
-    // Also check for surrogates (0xD800-0xDFFF)
-    if (code_point <= 0x7FF || (code_point >= 0xD800 && code_point <= 0xDFFF)) {
-      *length = 0;
-      return 0;
-    }
-  }
-  // --- 4-Byte Sequence: 11110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx ---
-  else if ((c1 & 0xF8) == 0xF0) {
-    uint8_t c2 = *current++;
-    uint8_t c3 = *current++;
-    uint8_t c4 = *current++;
-
-    // Error Check 1: Check continuation bytes
-    if (((c2 & 0xC0) != 0x80) || ((c3 & 0xC0) != 0x80) || ((c4 & 0xC0) != 0x80)) {
-      *length = 0;
-      return 0;
-    }
-
-    code_point = (c1 & 0x07) << 18;
-    code_point |= (c2 & 0x3F) << 12;
-    code_point |= (c3 & 0x3F) << 6;
-    code_point |= (c4 & 0x3F);
-
-    // Error Check 2: Overlong check (4-byte must be > 0xFFFF)
-    // Also check for valid Unicode range (must be <= 0x10FFFF)
-    if (code_point <= 0xFFFF || code_point > 0x10FFFF) {
-      *length = 0;
-      return 0;
-    }
-  }
-  // --- Invalid leading byte (e.g., 10xxxxxx or 11111xxx) ---
-  else {
-    *length = 0;
-    return 0;
-  }
-  *length = current - reinterpret_cast<const uint8_t *>(utf8_str);
-  return code_point;
-}
-
 Font::Font(const Glyph *data, int data_nr, int baseline, int height, int descender, int xheight, int capheight,
            uint8_t bpp)
     : glyphs_(ConstVector(data, data_nr)),
@@ -271,7 +170,7 @@ void Font::measure(const char *str, int *width, int *x_offset, int *baseline, in
   int x = 0;
   for (;;) {
     size_t length;
-    auto code_point = extract_unicode_codepoint(str, &length);
+    auto code_point = unicode::extract_unicode_codepoint(str, &length);
     if (length == 0)
       break;
     str += length;
@@ -300,7 +199,7 @@ void Font::print(int x_start, int y_start, display::Display *display, Color colo
   int x_at = x_start;
   for (;;) {
     size_t length;
-    auto code_point = extract_unicode_codepoint(text, &length);
+    auto code_point = unicode::extract_unicode_codepoint(text, &length);
     if (length == 0)
       break;
     text += length;
diff --git a/esphome/components/unicode/__init__.py b/esphome/components/unicode/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f70ffa9520
--- /dev/null
+++ b/esphome/components/unicode/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+CODEOWNERS = ["@esphome/core"]
diff --git a/esphome/components/unicode/unicode.cpp b/esphome/components/unicode/unicode.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f5b4084fe0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/esphome/components/unicode/unicode.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+#include "unicode.h"
+
+namespace esphome::unicode {
+
+uint32_t extract_unicode_codepoint(const char *utf8_str, size_t *length) {
+  // Safely cast to uint8_t* for correct bitwise operations on bytes
+  const uint8_t *current = reinterpret_cast<const uint8_t *>(utf8_str);
+  uint32_t code_point = 0;
+  uint8_t c1 = *current++;
+
+  // check for end of string
+  if (c1 == 0) {
+    *length = 0;
+    return 0;
+  }
+
+  // --- 1-Byte Sequence: 0xxxxxxx (ASCII) ---
+  if (c1 < 0x80) {
+    // Valid ASCII byte.
+    code_point = c1;
+    // Optimization: No need to check for continuation bytes.
+  }
+  // --- 2-Byte Sequence: 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx ---
+  else if ((c1 & 0xE0) == 0xC0) {
+    uint8_t c2 = *current++;
+
+    // Error Check 1: Check if c2 is a valid continuation byte (10xxxxxx)
+    if ((c2 & 0xC0) != 0x80) {
+      *length = 0;
+      return 0;
+    }
+
+    code_point = (c1 & 0x1F) << 6;
+    code_point |= (c2 & 0x3F);
+
+    // Error Check 2: Overlong check (2-byte must be > 0x7F)
+    if (code_point <= 0x7F) {
+      *length = 0;
+      return 0;
+    }
+  }
+  // --- 3-Byte Sequence: 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx ---
+  else if ((c1 & 0xF0) == 0xE0) {
+    uint8_t c2 = *current++;
+    uint8_t c3 = *current++;
+
+    // Error Check 1: Check continuation bytes
+    if (((c2 & 0xC0) != 0x80) || ((c3 & 0xC0) != 0x80)) {
+      *length = 0;
+      return 0;
+    }
+
+    code_point = (c1 & 0x0F) << 12;
+    code_point |= (c2 & 0x3F) << 6;
+    code_point |= (c3 & 0x3F);
+
+    // Error Check 2: Overlong check (3-byte must be > 0x7FF)
+    // Also check for surrogates (0xD800-0xDFFF)
+    if (code_point <= 0x7FF || (code_point >= 0xD800 && code_point <= 0xDFFF)) {
+      *length = 0;
+      return 0;
+    }
+  }
+  // --- 4-Byte Sequence: 11110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx ---
+  else if ((c1 & 0xF8) == 0xF0) {
+    uint8_t c2 = *current++;
+    uint8_t c3 = *current++;
+    uint8_t c4 = *current++;
+
+    // Error Check 1: Check continuation bytes
+    if (((c2 & 0xC0) != 0x80) || ((c3 & 0xC0) != 0x80) || ((c4 & 0xC0) != 0x80)) {
+      *length = 0;
+      return 0;
+    }
+
+    code_point = (c1 & 0x07) << 18;
+    code_point |= (c2 & 0x3F) << 12;
+    code_point |= (c3 & 0x3F) << 6;
+    code_point |= (c4 & 0x3F);
+
+    // Error Check 2: Overlong check (4-byte must be > 0xFFFF)
+    // Also check for valid Unicode range (must be <= 0x10FFFF)
+    if (code_point <= 0xFFFF || code_point > 0x10FFFF) {
+      *length = 0;
+      return 0;
+    }
+  }
+  // --- Invalid leading byte (e.g., 10xxxxxx or 11111xxx) ---
+  else {
+    *length = 0;
+    return 0;
+  }
+  *length = current - reinterpret_cast<const uint8_t *>(utf8_str);
+  return code_point;
+}
+
+}  // namespace esphome::unicode
diff --git a/esphome/components/unicode/unicode.h b/esphome/components/unicode/unicode.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9e69d036e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/esphome/components/unicode/unicode.h
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#pragma once
+
+#include <cstddef>
+#include <cstdint>
+
+namespace esphome::unicode {
+
+/**
+ *  Attempt to extract a 32 bit Unicode codepoint from a UTF-8 string.
+ *  If successful, return the codepoint and set the length to the number of bytes read.
+ *  If the end of the string has been reached and a valid codepoint has not been found, return 0 and set the length to
+ * 0.
+ *
+ * @param utf8_str The input string
+ * @param length Pointer to length storage
+ * @return The extracted code point
+ */
+uint32_t extract_unicode_codepoint(const char *utf8_str, size_t *length);
+
+}  // namespace esphome::unicode