Unicode Character "老" (U+8001)

The character 老 (CJK Unified Ideograph-8001) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+8001. It is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as 老.

Main Unicode Properties

Name CJK Unified Ideograph-8001
Unicode Codepoint U+8001
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block CJK Unified Ideographs
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Letter
Script Han
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+8001 Conversion

HTML (decimal) 老
HTML (hex) 老
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E8%80%81
CSS \008001
JavaScript, JSON \u8001
C, C++, Java \u8001
Python \u8001
Rust \u{8001}
Ruby \u8001

How to type "老"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 8 0 0 1. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 8 0 0 1. Release Alt.

Preview

  • 老
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • 老
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • 老
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE8 0x80 0x81
UTF-16 (hex) 0x8001
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00008001

Characters based on "老" (U+8001)

References