How many bytes of a character in Java?

In Java, char occupies 2 characters, because it is unicode encoded Java simple data type simple type size range/precision float 4 bytes 32-bit IEEE 754 single precision double 8 bytes 64-bit IEEE 754 Double Precision byte 1 byte-128 to 127 short 2 bytes-32,768 to 32,767 int 4 bytes-2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 long 8 bytes-9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 char 2 bytes entire Unicode Character Set Boolean 1-bit true or false

Number of characters occupied by strings in different character encodings in Java