U+0000

(unnamed character)

Cc — Control
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
0

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent U+0000 in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 00 0 1
UTF-16 LE 00 00 0 0 2
UTF-16 BE 00 00 0 0 2
UTF-32 LE 00 00 00 00 0 0 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 00 00 0 0 0 0 4
ASCII 00 0 1
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) 00 0 1
Windows-1252 00 0 1
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) 00 0 1
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) 00 0 1
KOI8-R 00 0 1
Shift-JIS 00 0 1
EUC-JP 00 0 1
GBK 00 0 1
Big5 00 0 1

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
�
�
\0
\u0000
%00
\u0000

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 1 byte. Single-byte characters (U+0000–U+007F) are identical to ASCII — the high bit is always 0.

Byte 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
00
UTF-8: 00 · 1 byte · Codepoint U+0000

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
BN — Boundary Neutral

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