diff --git a/packages/playground/css/__tests__/css.spec.ts b/packages/playground/css/__tests__/css.spec.ts
index d3577176b4bb16..6ca00e760349b1 100644
--- a/packages/playground/css/__tests__/css.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/playground/css/__tests__/css.spec.ts
@@ -247,6 +247,15 @@ test('inline css modules', async () => {
   expect(css).toMatch(/\.inline-module__apply-color-inline___[\w-]{5}/)
 })
 
+if (isBuild) {
+  test('@charset hoist', async () => {
+    serverLogs.forEach((log) => {
+      // no warning from esbuild css minifier
+      expect(log).not.toMatch('"@charset" must be the first rule in the file')
+    })
+  })
+}
+
 test('@import dependency w/ style entry', async () => {
   expect(await getColor('.css-dep')).toBe('purple')
 })
diff --git a/packages/playground/css/charset.css b/packages/playground/css/charset.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..5c42b279f8404c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/playground/css/charset.css
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+@charset "utf-8";
+
+.utf8 {
+  color: green;
+}
diff --git a/packages/playground/css/index.html b/packages/playground/css/index.html
index dd496a8ffdce11..fef6a0be393748 100644
--- a/packages/playground/css/index.html
+++ b/packages/playground/css/index.html
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ <h1>CSS</h1>
   <p>Inline CSS module:</p>
   <pre class="modules-inline"></pre>
 
+  <p>CSS with @charset:</p>
+  <pre class="charset-css"></pre>
+
   <p class="css-dep">
     @import dependency w/ style enrtrypoints: this should be purple
   </p>
diff --git a/packages/playground/css/main.js b/packages/playground/css/main.js
index 564b3a56677dbd..0d03aafbf0ec7f 100644
--- a/packages/playground/css/main.js
+++ b/packages/playground/css/main.js
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ text(
 import inlineMod from './inline.module.css?inline'
 text('.modules-inline', inlineMod)
 
+import charset from './charset.css'
+text('.charset-css', charset)
+
 import './dep.css'
 import './glob-dep.css'
 
diff --git a/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/css.ts b/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/css.ts
index dbe9e7d1dfa00f..adef254950c5e5 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/css.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/css.ts
@@ -427,10 +427,10 @@ export function cssPostPlugin(config: ResolvedConfig): Plugin {
             return `./${path.posix.basename(filename)}`
           }
         })
-        // only external @imports should exist at this point - and they need to
-        // be hoisted to the top of the CSS chunk per spec (#1845)
-        if (css.includes('@import')) {
-          css = await hoistAtImports(css)
+        // only external @imports and @charset should exist at this point
+        // hoist them to the top of the CSS chunk per spec (#1845 and #6333)
+        if (css.includes('@import') || css.includes('@charset')) {
+          css = await hoistAtRules(css)
         }
         if (minify && config.build.minify) {
           css = await minifyCSS(css, config)
@@ -1109,27 +1109,33 @@ async function minifyCSS(css: string, config: ResolvedConfig) {
 // #1845
 // CSS @import can only appear at top of the file. We need to hoist all @import
 // to top when multiple files are concatenated.
-async function hoistAtImports(css: string) {
+// #6333
+// CSS @charset must be the top-first in the file, hoist to top too
+async function hoistAtRules(css: string) {
   const postcss = await import('postcss')
-  return (await postcss.default([AtImportHoistPlugin]).process(css)).css
+  return (await postcss.default([AtRuleHoistPlugin]).process(css)).css
 }
 
-const AtImportHoistPlugin: PostCSS.PluginCreator<any> = () => {
+const AtRuleHoistPlugin: PostCSS.PluginCreator<any> = () => {
   return {
-    postcssPlugin: 'vite-hoist-at-imports',
+    postcssPlugin: 'vite-hoist-at-rules',
     Once(root) {
       const imports: PostCSS.AtRule[] = []
+      let charset: PostCSS.AtRule | undefined
       root.walkAtRules((rule) => {
         if (rule.name === 'import') {
           // record in reverse so that can simply prepend to preserve order
           imports.unshift(rule)
+        } else if (!charset && rule.name === 'charset') {
+          charset = rule
         }
       })
       imports.forEach((i) => root.prepend(i))
+      if (charset) root.prepend(charset)
     }
   }
 }
-AtImportHoistPlugin.postcss = true
+AtRuleHoistPlugin.postcss = true
 
 // Preprocessor support. This logic is largely replicated from @vue/compiler-sfc