[Solved] Do chars have intrinsic int values in Java?

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a is of type char and chars can be implicitly converted to int. a is represented by 97 as this is the codepoint of small latin letter a.

System.out.println('a'); // this will print out "a"

// If we cast it explicitly:
System.out.println((int)'a'); // this will print out "97"

// Here the cast is implicit:
System.out.println('a' + 0); // this will print out "97"

The first call calls println(char), and the other calls are to println(int).

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