字节顺序，又称端序，尾序（英语：Endianness）。在计算机科学领域中，是跨越多字节的进程对象的存储规则。

在几乎所有的机器上，多字节对象都被存储为连续的字节串行。例如在C语言中，一个类型为int的变量x地址为0x100，那幺其对应地址表达式&x的值为0x100。且x的四个字节将被存储在存储器的0x100, 0x101, 0x102, 0x103位置。

而存储地址内的排列则有两个通用规则。一个多位的整数将按照其存储地址的最低或最高字节排列。如果最低有效位在最高有效位的前面，则称小端序；反之则称大端序。在网络应用中，字节序是一个必须被考虑的因素，因为不同机器类型可能采用不同标准的字节序，所以均按照网络标准转化。

Endianness refers to the order of the bytes, comprising a digital word, in computer memory. It also describes the order of byte transmission over a digital link. Words may be represented in big-endian or little-endian format. When storing a word in big-endian format the most significant byte, which is the byte containing the most significant bit, is stored first and the following bytes are stored in decreasing significance order, the least significant byte, which is the byte containing the least significant bit, thus being stored at last place. Little-endian format reverses the order of the sequence and stores the least significant byte at the first location with the most significant byte being stored last.