When Unicode semantics are enabled, you can use the \uXXXX and \UXXXXXX escape sequences to specific Unicode code points



<?php // script is encoded in UTF-8
$str "金 is equivalent with \u91d1<br/>\n";
echo 
$str"<br/>\n";

echo 
"𐂃 is equivalent with:<br/>\n";
echo 
"- \U010083<br/>\n";
echo 
"- \C{LINEAR B IDEOGRAM B105 EQUID}";
?>
Output
金 is equivalent with \u91d1

𐂃 is equivalent with:
- \U010083
- \C{LINEAR B IDEOGRAM B105 EQUID}