The default value of a char attribute is indeed '\u0000' (the null character) as stated in the Java Language Specification, section §4.12.5 Initial Values of Variables .

In my system, the line System.out.println('\u0000'); prints a little square, meaning that it's not a printable character - as expected.

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Is there an ASCII code for it? I need to be able to determine if the array is empty or not, and further on, when I fill say first five elements with chars, I need to find out that the sixth element is empty. Thanks. ... default value \u0000. More on stackoverflow.com
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So, I'm learning about arrays using int name = new int[5] where it creates a fixed size array (in this case, it has 5 items of arrays).

As for int, it will fill it with 0 in each item as the initial values. For boolean, false. For double, 0.0. For String, null.

But then, I tried create the char array. But, when I printed it out, it shows weird values. This is what it prints out on my command line. What the hell is that?

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See this for default values of datatypes. The default value of char is the NULL character ('\u0000'), because char is numeric on the inside and will have a default value of 0, which maps in the ASCII table to that character. NULL will not be properly displayed.
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Well assuming you have not added anything into the array by assigning the first position (0) a value, it will be null. Because it is a char array the default value for char is '\u0000' but I am not sure if this is carried over for the array.
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