# Strings in Swift 4

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/strings-in-swift-4/5085>\
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**Created:** [February 5, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/strings-in-swift-4/5085 "2017-02-05T22:57:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_Ilseman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/michael_ilseman/32/44640_2.png) [@Michael\_Ilseman](https://forums.swift.org/u/Michael_Ilseman)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/strings-in-swift-4/5085/58 "2018-03-15T16:23:05Z")

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> [@silberz](#):
>
> Is it true or false

It is false.

🧟‍♀️ is:

- 1 grapheme (Swift's `Character`)
- 4 scalars (Swifts `Unicode.Scalar`):
  - U+1F9DF, U+200D, U+2640, U+FE0F

- 5 UTF-16 code units (Swift's `String.UTF16View.Element`):
  - D83E DDDF 200D 0020 2640

- 11 UTF-8 code units (Swift's `String.UTF8View.Element`):
  - F0 9F A7 9F E2 80 8D 20 E2 99 80

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