diff --git a/core/build.gradle.kts b/core/build.gradle.kts
index 06e9fe9..0458f44 100644
--- a/core/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/core/build.gradle.kts
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ dependencies {
 
     compileOnly(libs.lombok)
     annotationProcessor(libs.lombok)
+
+    testImplementation(libs.junit.jupiter)
+    testRuntimeOnly(libs.junit.platform.launcher)
 }
 
 tasks {
@@ -24,4 +27,9 @@ tasks {
         options.encoding = "UTF-8"
         options.compilerArgs.add("--enable-preview")
     }
+
+    withType<Test> {
+        useJUnitPlatform()
+        jvmArgs("--enable-preview")
+    }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/JsonBoolean.java b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/JsonBoolean.java
index ad14f77..b725fe5 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/JsonBoolean.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/JsonBoolean.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package eu.jonahbauer.json;
 
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token.JsonToken;
 import lombok.Getter;
 import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.experimental.Accessors;
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@ import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 @Getter
 @Accessors(fluent = true)
 @RequiredArgsConstructor
-public enum JsonBoolean implements JsonValue {
+public enum JsonBoolean implements JsonValue, JsonToken {
     TRUE(true),
     FALSE(false),
     ;
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/JsonNumber.java b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/JsonNumber.java
index d104266..1101c52 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/JsonNumber.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/JsonNumber.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package eu.jonahbauer.json;
 
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token.JsonToken;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Contract;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
@@ -8,7 +9,7 @@ import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
  * Java representation of a JSON boolean. Note, that JSON does not distinguish between integers and floating point
  * numbers and therefore all numbers are stored as {@code double}.
  */
-public record JsonNumber(double value) implements JsonValue {
+public record JsonNumber(double value) implements JsonValue, JsonToken {
     public JsonNumber {
         if (!Double.isFinite(value)) throw new IllegalArgumentException("value must be finite");
     }
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/JsonString.java b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/JsonString.java
index 2042709..c8da4c4 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/JsonString.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/JsonString.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package eu.jonahbauer.json;
 
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token.JsonToken;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Contract;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
@@ -8,7 +9,7 @@ import java.util.Objects;
 import java.util.stream.IntStream;
 
 @SuppressWarnings("unused")
-public record JsonString(@NotNull String value) implements JsonValue, CharSequence {
+public record JsonString(@NotNull String value) implements JsonValue, JsonToken, CharSequence {
     public static final @NotNull JsonString EMPTY = new JsonString("");
 
     public JsonString {
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/exceptions/JsonReaderException.java b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/exceptions/JsonReaderException.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..12d1376
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/exceptions/JsonReaderException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package eu.jonahbauer.json.exceptions;
+
+import lombok.Getter;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
+
+@Getter
+abstract class JsonReaderException extends JsonProcessingException {
+    private final int lineNumber;
+    private final int columnNumber;
+
+    public JsonReaderException(int line, int column, @NotNull String message) {
+        super(message);
+        this.lineNumber = line;
+        this.columnNumber = column;
+    }
+
+    public JsonReaderException(int line, int column, @NotNull String message, @NotNull Throwable cause) {
+        super(message, cause);
+        this.lineNumber = line;
+        this.columnNumber = column;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public @NotNull String getMessage() {
+        return super.getMessage() + " at line " + getLineNumber() + ", column " + getColumnNumber();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/exceptions/JsonTokenizerException.java b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/exceptions/JsonTokenizerException.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..847f60c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/exceptions/JsonTokenizerException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package eu.jonahbauer.json.exceptions;
+
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
+
+public class JsonTokenizerException extends JsonReaderException {
+
+    public JsonTokenizerException(int line, int column, @NotNull String message) {
+        super(line, column, message);
+    }
+
+    public JsonTokenizerException(int line, int column, @NotNull String message, @NotNull Throwable cause) {
+        super(line, column, message, cause);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/JsonTokenizer.java b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/JsonTokenizer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7a878db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/JsonTokenizer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+package eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer;
+
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token.JsonToken;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+import java.util.stream.StreamSupport;
+
+public interface JsonTokenizer extends Iterable<JsonToken> {
+
+    /**
+     * {@return the next token or <code>null</code> if the end of the input has been reached}
+     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
+     */
+    @Nullable JsonToken next() throws IOException;
+
+    /**
+     * {@return the line at which the previously read token appeared}
+     */
+    int getLineNumber();
+
+    /**
+     * {@return the column at which the previously read token appeared}
+     */
+    int getColumnNumber();
+
+    /**
+     * {@return an iterator over the tokens} The {@link Iterator#next()} and {@link Iterator#hasNext()} methods
+     * may throw an {@link UncheckedIOException} if an I/O error occurs.
+     */
+    @Override
+    default @NotNull Iterator<@NotNull JsonToken> iterator() {
+        class JsonTokenizerIterator implements Iterator<@NotNull JsonToken> {
+            private @Nullable JsonToken next;
+            private boolean isValid = false;
+
+            private void ensureValid() {
+                if (isValid) return;
+
+                try {
+                    next = JsonTokenizer.this.next();
+                    isValid = true;
+                } catch (IOException ex) {
+                    throw new UncheckedIOException(ex);
+                }
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public boolean hasNext() {
+                ensureValid();
+                return next != null;
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public @NotNull JsonToken next() {
+                ensureValid();
+                if (next == null) {
+                    throw new NoSuchElementException();
+                }
+
+                var token = next;
+                next = null;
+                isValid = false;
+                return token;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return new JsonTokenizerIterator();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@return a stream of tokens} When an I/O error occurs, the corresponding {@link IOException} is wrapped in an
+     * {@link UncheckedIOException} exception.
+     */
+    default @NotNull Stream<@NotNull JsonToken> stream() {
+        return StreamSupport.stream(this.spliterator(), false);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/JsonTokenizerImpl.java b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/JsonTokenizerImpl.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..54c8eaf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/JsonTokenizerImpl.java
@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+package eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer;
+
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.exceptions.JsonTokenizerException;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.reader.PushbackReader;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.reader.PushbackReaderImpl;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token.JsonNull;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token.JsonPunctuation;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token.JsonToken;
+import lombok.Getter;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.JsonBoolean;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.JsonNumber;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.JsonString;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+public final class JsonTokenizerImpl implements JsonTokenizer {
+    private static final Pattern NUMBER_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("-?(?:0|[1-9]\\d*)(?:\\.\\d+)?([eE][+-]?\\d+)?");
+    private static final JsonPunctuation[] PUNCTUATION;
+
+    static {
+        PUNCTUATION = new JsonPunctuation[128];
+        for (var punctuation : JsonPunctuation.values()) {
+            PUNCTUATION[punctuation.value()] = punctuation;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private final @NotNull PushbackReader reader;
+    private final int[] buffer = new int[4];
+
+    @Getter
+    private int lineNumber;
+    @Getter
+    private int columnNumber;
+
+    public JsonTokenizerImpl(@NotNull String json) {
+        this(new StringReader(json));
+    }
+
+    public JsonTokenizerImpl(@NotNull Reader reader) {
+        this.reader = new PushbackReaderImpl(reader);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public @Nullable JsonToken next() throws IOException {
+        int chr;
+
+        do {
+            chr = reader.read();
+        } while (isWhitespace(chr));
+
+        lineNumber = reader.getLineNumber();
+        columnNumber = reader.getColumnNumber();
+
+        if (chr == PushbackReader.EOF) return null;
+        if (chr < 128 && PUNCTUATION[chr] != null) return PUNCTUATION[chr];
+        if (chr == '"') return nextString();
+
+        reader.pushback();
+        String token = nextToken();
+        return switch (token) {
+            case "true" -> JsonBoolean.TRUE;
+            case "false" -> JsonBoolean.FALSE;
+            case "null" -> JsonNull.NULL;
+            case String number when isNumberLiteral(number) -> {
+                try {
+                    yield new JsonNumber(Double.parseDouble(number));
+                } catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
+                    throw error("invalid number literal: " + number, ex);
+                }
+            }
+            default -> throw error("invalid token: " + token);
+        };
+    }
+
+    private boolean isWhitespace(int chr) {
+        return chr == ' ' || chr == '\t' || chr == '\r' || chr == '\n';
+    }
+
+    private boolean isPunctuation(int chr) {
+        return chr == '{' || chr == '}' || chr == '[' || chr == ']' || chr == ',' || chr == ':' || chr == '"';
+    }
+
+    private boolean isNumberLiteral(@NotNull String token) {
+        return NUMBER_PATTERN.matcher(token).matches();
+    }
+
+    private @NotNull String nextToken() throws IOException {
+        StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();
+        while (true) {
+            int chr = reader.read();
+            if (isWhitespace(chr) || isPunctuation(chr)) {
+                reader.pushback();
+                return out.toString();
+            } else if (chr == -1) {
+                return out.toString();
+            } else {
+                out.append((char) chr);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private @NotNull JsonString nextString() throws IOException {
+        var current = new StringBuilder();
+        while (true) {
+            int chr = reader.read();
+            if (chr == '"') {
+                return new JsonString(current.toString());
+            } else if (chr == '\\') {
+                chr = reader.read();
+                switch (chr) {
+                    case PushbackReader.EOF -> throw error("incomplete escape sequence in string literal");
+                    case '"' -> current.append('"');
+                    case '\\' -> current.append('\\');
+                    case '/' -> current.append('/');
+                    case 'b' -> current.append('\b');
+                    case 'f' -> current.append('\f');
+                    case 'n' -> current.append('\n');
+                    case 'r' -> current.append('\r');
+                    case 't' -> current.append('\t');
+                    case 'u' -> {
+                        buffer[0] = reader.read();
+                        buffer[1] = reader.read();
+                        buffer[2] = reader.read();
+                        buffer[3] = reader.read();
+
+                        if (buffer[0] < 0 || buffer[1] < 0 || buffer[2] < 0 || buffer[3] < 0) {
+                            throw error("incomplete escape sequence in string literal");
+                        }
+
+                        int code = 0;
+                        for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
+                            code *= 16;
+                            char esc = (char) buffer[i];
+                            if ('0' <= esc && esc <= '9') {
+                                code += esc - '0';
+                            } else if ('a' <= esc && esc <= 'f') {
+                                code += 11 + (esc - 'a');
+                            } else if ('A' <= esc && esc <= 'F') {
+                                code += 11 + (esc - 'A');
+                            } else {
+                                throw error("invalid character " + toString(buffer[i]) + " in escape sequence");
+                            }
+                        }
+                        current.append((char) code);
+                    }
+                    default -> throw error("invalid character " + toString(chr) + " in escape sequence");
+                }
+
+            } else if (chr == PushbackReader.EOF) {
+                throw error("unclosed string literal");
+            } else if (chr < 32) {
+                throw error("unescaped control character in string literal");
+            } else {
+                current.append((char) chr);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private @NotNull JsonTokenizerException error(@NotNull String message) {
+        return new JsonTokenizerException(getLineNumber(), getColumnNumber(), message);
+    }
+
+    private @NotNull JsonTokenizerException error(@NotNull String message, @NotNull Throwable cause) {
+        return new JsonTokenizerException(getLineNumber(), getColumnNumber(), message, cause);
+    }
+
+    private static @NotNull String toString(int chr) {
+        return switch (chr) {
+            case PushbackReader.EOF -> "EOF";
+            case '\t' -> "'\\t'";
+            case '\r' -> "'\\r'";
+            case '\n' -> "'\\n'";
+            case '\b' -> "'\\b'";
+            case '\f' -> "'\\f'";
+            default -> {
+                if (Character.isISOControl((char) chr)) {
+                    yield "0x" + Integer.toHexString(chr);
+                } else {
+                    yield "'" + (char) chr + "'";
+                }
+            }
+        };
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/reader/PushbackReader.java b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/reader/PushbackReader.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09a4eb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/reader/PushbackReader.java
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.reader;
+
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.Range;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+public interface PushbackReader extends AutoCloseable {
+    int EOF = -1;
+
+    /**
+     * Reads the next character.
+     * @return the next character or {@link #EOF} if the end of the stream has been reached
+     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
+     */
+    @Range(from = -1, to = Character.MAX_VALUE) int read() throws IOException;
+
+    /**
+     * Pushes the reader back, making {@link #read()} return the same character as before.
+     * @throws IllegalStateException when called before the first read or more than once after each read
+     */
+    void pushback();
+
+    /**
+     * {@return the line number of the current character}
+     * @throws IllegalStateException when called before the first read
+     */
+    @Range(from = 1, to = Integer.MAX_VALUE) int getLineNumber();
+
+    /**
+     * {@return the column number of the current character}
+     * @throws IllegalStateException when called before the first read
+     */
+    @Range(from = 1, to = Integer.MAX_VALUE) int getColumnNumber();
+
+    @Override
+    void close() throws IOException;
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/reader/PushbackReaderImpl.java b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/reader/PushbackReaderImpl.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..71f26b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/reader/PushbackReaderImpl.java
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+package eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.reader;
+
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+public class PushbackReaderImpl implements PushbackReader {
+    private final @NotNull Reader reader;
+
+    private int current = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
+    private int lineNumber = 1;
+    private int columnNumber = 0; // column number will be incremented when a character is read
+
+    private boolean pushback;
+
+    public PushbackReaderImpl(@NotNull Reader reader) {
+        this.reader = Objects.requireNonNull(reader, "reader");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getLineNumber() {
+        if (current == Integer.MIN_VALUE) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("No character has been read so far.");
+        }
+        return lineNumber;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getColumnNumber() {
+        if (current == Integer.MIN_VALUE) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("No character has been read so far.");
+        }
+        return columnNumber;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void pushback() {
+        if (current == Integer.MIN_VALUE) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("No character has been read so far.");
+        } else if (pushback) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot push back more than one character at a time.");
+        }
+        pushback = true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int read() throws IOException {
+        if (pushback) {
+            pushback = false;
+            return current;
+        }
+
+        int result = reader.read();
+
+        if (current == '\n' && result != '\n' || current == '\r' && result != '\n' && result != '\r') {
+            lineNumber++;
+            columnNumber = 1;
+        } else {
+            columnNumber++;
+        }
+
+        current = result;
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() throws IOException {
+        reader.close();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/token/JsonNull.java b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/token/JsonNull.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ad244f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/token/JsonNull.java
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token;
+
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
+
+/**
+ * The JSON token {@code null}.
+ */
+@SuppressWarnings("java:S6548")
+public enum JsonNull implements JsonToken {
+    NULL;
+
+    @Override
+    public @NotNull String toString() {
+        return "null";
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/token/JsonPunctuation.java b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/token/JsonPunctuation.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f076f00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/token/JsonPunctuation.java
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token;
+
+import lombok.Getter;
+import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
+import lombok.experimental.Accessors;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
+
+@Getter
+@Accessors(fluent = true)
+@RequiredArgsConstructor
+public enum JsonPunctuation implements JsonToken {
+    BEGIN_OBJECT('{'),
+    END_OBJECT('}'),
+    BEGIN_ARRAY('['),
+    END_ARRAY(']'),
+    VALUE_SEPARATOR(','),
+    NAME_SEPARATOR(':'),
+    ;
+
+    private final char value;
+
+    @Override
+    public @NotNull String toString() {
+        return name() + "(" + value + ")";
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/token/JsonToken.java b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/token/JsonToken.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a8ec615
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/token/JsonToken.java
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+package eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token;
+
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.JsonBoolean;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.JsonNumber;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.JsonString;
+
+/**
+ * Represents a JSON token.
+ */
+public sealed interface JsonToken permits JsonBoolean, JsonNull, JsonNumber, JsonString, JsonPunctuation { }
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/module-info.java b/core/src/main/java/module-info.java
index 1ebc43a..8acc0c5 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/module-info.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/module-info.java
@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@ module eu.jonahbauer.json {
 
     exports eu.jonahbauer.json;
     exports eu.jonahbauer.json.exceptions;
+    exports eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer;
+    exports eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token;
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/JsonTokenizerImplTest.java b/core/src/test/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/JsonTokenizerImplTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6bfbdcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/test/java/eu/jonahbauer/json/tokenizer/JsonTokenizerImplTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+package eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer;
+
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.JsonBoolean;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.JsonNumber;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.JsonString;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.exceptions.JsonTokenizerException;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token.JsonNull;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token.JsonPunctuation;
+import eu.jonahbauer.json.tokenizer.token.JsonToken;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+
+class JsonTokenizerImplTest {
+
+    @Test
+    void simpleTokens() {
+        test("{[]},:", JsonPunctuation.BEGIN_OBJECT, JsonPunctuation.BEGIN_ARRAY, JsonPunctuation.END_ARRAY, JsonPunctuation.END_OBJECT, JsonPunctuation.VALUE_SEPARATOR, JsonPunctuation.NAME_SEPARATOR);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void literals() {
+        test("true", JsonBoolean.TRUE);
+        test("false", JsonBoolean.FALSE);
+        test("null", JsonNull.NULL);
+        test("null true false", JsonNull.NULL, JsonBoolean.TRUE, JsonBoolean.FALSE);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void misspelledLiterals() {
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("tru"));
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("fal"));
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("nu"));
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("TRUE"));
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("FALSE"));
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("NULL"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void stringWithoutEscapes() {
+        test("\"foobar\"\"baz\"", new JsonString("foobar"), new JsonString("baz"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void stringWithSimpleEscapes() {
+        test("\"\\b\\t\\f\\r\\n\\/\\\\\\\"\"", new JsonString("\b\t\f\r\n/\\\""));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void stringWithUnicodeEscapes() {
+        test("\"\\u0041\\u0042\\u0043\"", new JsonString("ABC"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void stringWithInvalidEscapeSequence() {
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("\"\\x\""));
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("\"\\uxxxx\""));
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("\"\\uaa\""));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void stringWithControlCharacters() {
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("\"\u0010\""));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void stringWithoutTrailingQuotes() {
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("\"hello world"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void number() {
+        test("-0", new JsonNumber(-0.0));
+        test("0", new JsonNumber(0.0));
+        test("123", new JsonNumber(123.0));
+        test("123.456", new JsonNumber(123.456));
+        test("-123", new JsonNumber(-123.0));
+        test("-123.456", new JsonNumber(-123.456));
+        test("1E10", new JsonNumber(1E10));
+        test("1E+10", new JsonNumber(1E+10));
+        test("1E-10", new JsonNumber(1E-10));
+        test("123.456E10", new JsonNumber(123.456E10));
+        test("123.456E+10", new JsonNumber(123.456E+10));
+        test("123.456E-10", new JsonNumber(123.456E-10));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void numberWithLeadingZero() {
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("00"));
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("-00"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void numberWithEmptyIntegralPart() {
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test(".0"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void numberWithEmptyFractionPart() {
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("0."));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void numberWithEmptyExponentPart() {
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("0.0E"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void numberWithGrouping() {
+        assertThrows(JsonTokenizerException.class, () -> test("1_234"));
+        test("1,234", new JsonNumber(1), JsonPunctuation.VALUE_SEPARATOR, new JsonNumber(234));
+    }
+
+    private void test(@NotNull String json, @NotNull JsonToken @NotNull... expected) {
+        var tokenizer = new JsonTokenizerImpl(json);
+        var actual = tokenizer.stream().toList();
+        assertEquals(List.of(expected), actual);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index 1883bb8..d53f039 100644
--- a/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 [versions]
 annotations = "24.1.0"
+junit = "5.12.1"
+junit-launcher = "1.12.1"
 lombok = "1.18.32"
 
 [libraries]
 annotations = { module = "org.jetbrains:annotations", version.ref = "annotations" }
+junit-jupiter = { module = "org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter", version.ref = "junit" }
+junit-platform-launcher = { module = "org.junit.platform:junit-platform-launcher", version.ref = "junit-launcher" }
 lombok = { module = "org.projectlombok:lombok", version.ref = "lombok" }
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