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U+4E00 CHARACTER

<CJK Ideograph, First>

Quick Facts

Unicode Name <CJK Ideograph, First>
Code Point U+4E00
Decimal Value 19968
General Category Other Letter (Lo) →
Unicode Block CJK Unified Ideographs →
Script Han →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E4 B8 80
UTF-16 Code Unit 4E00
UTF-32 4 bytes 00004E00
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 4E 00 LE: 00 4E
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 4E 00 LE: 00 4E 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal &#19968;
HTML Hexadecimal &#x4E00;
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \004E00
JavaScript (ES6) \u4E00
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u4E00
JSON Escape \u4E00
Python \u4E00
PHP "\u{4E00}"
Java "\u4E00"
C / C++ "\u4E00"
Rust '\u{4e00}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E4%B8%80

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class LLeft-to-Right
Bidi Mirrored No

Case Mapping & Numeric Data

Numeric Value 1

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+4E00 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A 一 Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A 一 Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A 一 Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A 一 Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name <CJK Ideograph, First>

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+4E00

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