You may or may not know about what-cursor-position (bound to Ctrl+x =) that displays the current position of the point in the echo area. It’s probably not too useful if you have the row and column displayed in the mode line although it does give additional information.
Wilfred Hughes’ Emacs Command of the Day offers a handy tip about it:
C-u C-x = calls what-cursor-position with a prefix argument. This shows *Help* with lots of information about the current character.
Great for identifying the unicode character at point! pic.twitter.com/LYslMQPxRY
— Ⓔ Command of the Day (@ecotd) April 24, 2018
All that information is the same as what you get with describe-char but it’s conveniently bound to a shortcut, which decribe-char isn’t by default.