Character Variable in Java Programming

What is Character Variable

In Java programming, a character variable can hold a single character enclosed within single quotes. To declare a variable of this type, we use the keyword char, which is pronounced as kar. With a char variable, we can store any character, including letters, numbers, and symbols.

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char variable_name;

Here char is used for declaring Character data type and variable_name is the name of variable (you can use any name of your choice for example: a, b, c, alpha, etc.) and ; is used for line terminator (end of line).

Now let's see some examples for more understanding.

char x;

char x='A', y='5', z='#';

char x = '$';
x = '@';    //now the new value of x is @