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Each Chinese character is approximately 3 bytes in UTF-8 | : [[Image:Owl icon.jpg]] Each Chinese character is approximately 3 bytes in UTF-8 | ||
Common Chinese characters (CJK Unified Ideographs, U+4E00 ~ U+9FFF) are all 3 bytes — for example, "你", "好", "狐", and "象". Characters beyond U+FFFF (outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, BMP<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(Unicode) Plane (Unicode) - Wikipedia]</ref>) take 4 bytes. These are mostly rare characters from CJK Extension B (U+20000 and up)<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs_Extension_B CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B - Wikipedia]</ref>, such as "[https://www.cns11643.gov.tw/wordView.jsp?ID=993142 𤆬]" (U+241AC) and "[https://www.cns11643.gov.tw/wordView.jsp?ID=402472 𠮷]" (U+20BB7). | |||
== How to count characters with PHP == | == How to count characters with PHP == | ||