Regular and Unusual Space Characters - Unicode Explorer

It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2800, and in Braille ASCII with a space. In all Braille systems, the Braille pattern dots-0 is used to represent a ... UnicodeExplorer UnicodeBlocks Emoji Lists Articles Tools MyList Home Articles RegularandUnusualSpaceCharacters RegularandUnusualSpaceCharacters RegularSpaceCharacters U+0020SPACE Thisistheregularspacecharacterasproducedbypressingthespacebarofyourkeyboard. U+00A0NO-BREAKSPACE Afixedspacethatpreventsanautomaticlinebreakatitsposition.Abbreviation:NBSP U+2000ENQUAD A1en(=1/2em)widespace,where1emistheheightofthecurrentfont. U+2001EMQUAD A1emwidespace,where1emistheheightofthecurrentfont. U+2002ENSPACE A1en(=1/2em)widespace,where1emistheheightofthecurrentfont. U+2003EMSPACE A1emwidespace,where1emistheheightofthecurrentfont. U+2004THREE-PER-EMSPACE A1/3emwidespace,where1emistheheightofthecurrentfont."ThickSpace". U+2005FOUR-PER-EMSPACE A1/4emwidespace,where1emistheheightofthecurrentfont."MidSpace". U+2006SIX-PER-EMSPACE A1/6emwidespace,where1emistheheightofthecurrentfont. U+2007FIGURESPACE Aspacecharacterthatisaswideasfixed-widthdigits.Usuallyusedwhentypesettingverticallyalignednumbers. U+2008PUNCTUATIONSPACE Aspacecharacterthatisaswideasaperiod("."). U+2009THINSPACE A1/6em-1/4emwidespace,where1emistheheightofthecurrentfont. U+200AHAIRSPACE Narrowerthanthe"THINSPACE",usuallythethinnestspacecharacter. U+202FNARROWNO-BREAKSPACE Anarrowformofano-breakspace,typicallythewidthofa"THINSPACE".Abbreviation:NNBSP. U+205FMEDIUMMATHEMATICALSPACE A4/18emwidespace,where1emistheheightofthecurrentfont.Usuallyusedwhentypesettingmathematicalformulas. U+3000IDEOGRAPHICSPACE RegularSpaceCharacterswithZeroWidth U+200BZEROWIDTHSPACE Literallyazero-widthspacecharacter. ‌U+200CZEROWIDTHNON-JOINER Whenplacedbetweentwocharactersthatwouldotherwisebeconnectedintoaligature,aZWNJcausesthemtobeprintedintheirfinalandinitialforms,respectively. ‍U+200DZEROWIDTHJOINER Whenplacedbetweentwocharactersthatwouldotherwisenotbeconnected,aZWJcausesthemtobeprintedintheirconnectedforms(ligature).Alsousedtojoinemojiwithmodifiercharacters. U+2060WORDJOINER Azerowidthnon-breakingspace.Abbreviation:WJ. U+FEFFZEROWIDTHNO-BREAKSPACE Thezerowidthno-breakspace(ZWNBSP)isadeprecateduseoftheUnicodecharacteratcodepointU+FEFF.CharacterU+FEFFisintendedforuseasaByteOrderMark(BOM)atthestartofafile.However,ifencounteredelsewhere,itshould,accordingtoUnicode,betreatedasa"zerowidthno-breakspace".ThedeliberateuseofU+FEFFforthispurposeisdeprecatedasofUnicode3.2,withthewordjoinerstronglypreferred. Non-SpaceCharactersthatActLikeSpaces Thefollowingcharactersareprobablythemostinteresting:theyactlikeregularspacecharacters,butaretypicallynotconsideredassuch.Becauseofthis,theycanoftenbeusedinplaceswhereasingle(regular)spacecharacterisnotallowed(e.g.asaYoutubevideotitle,innicknamesinpopulargames,etc.). U+180EMONGOLIANVOWELSEPARATOR TheMVSisaword-internalthinwhitespacethatmayoccuronlybeforetheword-finalvowelsU+1820MONGOLIANLETTERAandU+1821MONGOLIANLETTERE.Itdeterminesthespecificformofthecharacterprecedingit,selectsaspecialvariantshapeofthesevowels,andproducesasmallgapwithintheword.Itisnolongerclassifiedasspacecharacter(i.e.inZscategory)inUnicode6.3.0,eventhoughitwasinpreviousversionsofthestandard. U+2800BRAILLEPATTERNBLANK TheBraillepattern"dots-0",alsocalleda"blankBraillepattern",isa6-dotor8-dotbraillecellwithnodotsraised.ItisrepresentedbytheUnicodecodepointU+2800,andinBrailleASCIIwithaspace.InallBraillesystems,theBraillepatterndots-0isusedtorepresentaspaceorthelackofcontent.Inparticularsomefontsdisplaythecharacterasafixed-widthblank.However,theUnicodestandardexplicitlystatesthatitdoesnotactasaspace. U+3164HANGULFILLER TheHangulFillercharacterisusedtointroduceeight-byteHangulcompositionsequencesandtostandinforanabsentelement(usuallyanemptyfinal)insuchasequence.UnicodeincludestheWansungcodeHangulFillerintheHangulCompatibilityJamoblockforround-tripcompatibility,butusesitsownsystem(withitsown,differentlyused,fillercharacters)forcomposingHangul. VisibleSpaceCharacters ␠U+2420SYMBOLFORSPACE ␢U+2422BLANKSYMBOL ␣U+2423OPENBOX