0x3C41

0x3C41 is a hexadecimal literal commonly used in computing to denote the 16-bit value 0x3C41, which equals decimal 15425. The 0x prefix is standard in many programming languages, including C, C++, Java, JavaScript, and Python, to indicate hexadecimal notation. Such a value can appear as a constant, a piece of data read from or written to memory, or part of larger binary constructs like instruction encodings or binary protocols.

Endianness matters when 0x3C41 is stored in memory. In big-endian systems, the two bytes are stored as 3C followed by 41. In little-endian systems, the bytes appear as 41 followed by 3C. Endianness also affects how single values are interpreted when adjacent bytes are accessed individually.

In Unicode, 0x3C41 can be read as the code point U+3C41. This places it in the range U+3400 to U+4DBF, which is the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A block. As a result, U+3C41 represents a single East Asian ideographic character, though the specific glyph, pronunciation, and meaning depend on the character assigned to that code point. Many Extended-A code points are rarely used outside specialized linguistic or scholarly contexts.

In other contexts, 0x3C41 may appear as part of larger data structures, such as a fragment of an address, a color component within a multi-byte value, or an opcode in a custom instruction set. Its interpretation is entirely context-dependent, and there is no single universal meaning attached to 0x3C41 beyond its numeric value.