Template:Whitespace (Unicode)
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| Name | Code point | Width box | May break? | In IDN? |
Script | Block | General category |
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| character tabulation Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+0009 Template:!! 9 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! Basic Latin Template:!! Other, control |
HT, Horizontal Tab. HTML/XML named entity: 	, LaTeX: \tab, C escape: \t
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| line feed Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+000A Template:!! 10 | colspan=3 Template:N/a | Common Template:!! Basic Latin Template:!! Other, control |
LF, Line feed. HTML/XML named entity: 
, C escape: \n
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| line tabulation Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+000B Template:!! 11 | colspan=3 Template:N/a | Common Template:!! Basic Latin Template:!! Other, control |
VT, Vertical Tab. C escape: \v
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| form feed Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+000C Template:!! 12 | colspan=3 Template:N/a | Common Template:!! Basic Latin Template:!! Other, control |
FF, Form feed. C escape: \f
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| carriage return Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+000D Template:!! 13 | colspan=3 Template:N/a | Common Template:!! Basic Latin Template:!! Other, control |
CR, Carriage return. C escape: \r
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| space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+0020 Template:!! 32 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! Basic Latin Template:!! Separator, space |
Most common (normal ASCII space). LaTeX: \
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| next line Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+0085 Template:!! 133 | colspan=3 Template:N/a | Common Template:!! Latin-1 Supplement Template:!! Other, control |
NEL, Next line. LaTeX: \\
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| no-break space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+00A0 Template:!! 160 | Template:!! Template:No Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! Latin-1 Supplement Template:!! Separator, space |
Non-breaking space: identical to U+0020, but not a point at which a line may be broken. HTML/XML named entity: ,  , LaTeX: ~
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| ogham space mark Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+1680 Template:!! 5760 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Ogham Template:!! Ogham Template:!! Separator, space |
Used for interword separation in Ogham text. Normally a vertical line in vertical text or a horizontal line in horizontal text, but may also be a blank space in "stemless" fonts. Requires an Ogham font. | ||||||
| en quad Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+2000 Template:!! 8192 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
Width of one en. U+2002 is canonically equivalent to this character; U+2002 is preferred. | ||||||
| em quad Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+2001 Template:!! 8193 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
Also known as "mutton quad". Width of one em. U+2003 is canonically equivalent to this character; U+2003 is preferred. | ||||||
| en space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+2002 Template:!! 8194 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
Also known as "nut". Width of one en. U+2000 En Quad is canonically equivalent to this character; U+2002 is preferred. HTML/XML named entity:  , LaTeX: \enspace (the LaTeX en space is a no-break space)
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| em space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+2003 Template:!! 8195 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
Also known as "mutton". Width of one em. U+2001 Em Quad is canonically equivalent to this character; U+2003 is preferred. HTML/XML named entity:  , LaTeX: \quad
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| three-per-em space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+2004 Template:!! 8196 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
Also known as "thick space". One third of an em wide. HTML/XML named entity:  , LaTeX: \; (the LaTeX thick space is a no-break space)
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| four-per-em space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+2005 Template:!! 8197 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
Also known as "mid space". One fourth of an em wide. HTML/XML named entity:  
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| six-per-em space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+2006 Template:!! 8198 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
One sixth of an em wide. In computer typography, sometimes equated to U+2009. | ||||||
| figure space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+2007 Template:!! 8199 | Template:!! Template:No Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
Figure space. In fonts with monospaced digits, equal to the width of one digit. HTML/XML named entity:  
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| punctuation space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+2008 Template:!! 8200 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
As wide as the narrow punctuation in a font, i.e. the advance width of the period or comma.[1] HTML/XML named entity:  
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| thin space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+2009 Template:!! 8201 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
Thin space; one-fifth (sometimes one-sixth) of an em wide. Recommended for use as a thousands separator for measures made with SI units. Unlike U+2002 to U+2008, its width may get adjusted in typesetting.[2] HTML/XML named entity:  ,  , LaTeX: \, (the LaTeX thin space is a no-break space)
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| hair space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+200A Template:!! 8202 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
Thinner than a thin space. HTML/XML named entity:  ,  
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| line separator Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+2028 Template:!! 8232 | colspan=3 Template:N/a | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, line |
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| paragraph separator Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+2029 Template:!! 8233 | colspan=3 Template:N/a | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, paragraph |
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| narrow no-break space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+202F Template:!! 8239 | Template:!! Template:No Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
Narrow no-break space. Similar in function to U+00A0 No-Break Space. When used with Mongolian, its width is usually one third of the normal space; in other context, its width sometimes resembles that of the Thin Space (U+2009). LaTeX: \,
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| medium mathematical space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+205F Template:!! 8287 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
MMSP. Used in mathematical formulae. Four-eighteenths of an em.[3] In mathematical typography, the widths of spaces are usually given in integral multiples of an eighteenth of an em, and 4/18 em may be used in several situations, for example between the a and the + and between the + and the b in the expression a + b.[4] HTML/XML named entity:  , LaTeX: \: (the LaTeX medium space is a no-break space)
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| ideographic space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+3000 Template:!! 12288 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Common Template:!! CJK Symbols and Punctuation Template:!! Separator, space |
As wide as a CJK character cell (fullwidth). Used, for example, in tai tou. | ||||||
| Name | Code point | Width box | May break? | In IDN? |
Script | Block | General category |
Notes | |
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| mongolian vowel separator Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+180E Template:!! 6158 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | Mongolian Template:!! Mongolian Template:!! Other, Format |
MVS. A narrow space character, used in Mongolian to cause the final two characters of a word to take on different shapes.[5] It is no longer classified as space character (i.e. in Zs category) in Unicode 6.3.0, even though it was in previous versions of the standard. | ||||||
| zero width space Template:!!Template:Hidden sort keyU+200B Template:!! 8203 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:No | ? Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Other, Format |
ZWSP, zero-width space. Used to indicate word boundaries to text processing systems when using scripts that do not use explicit spacing. It is similar to the soft hyphen, with the difference that the latter is used to indicate syllable boundaries, and should display a visible hyphen when the line breaks at it. HTML/XML named entity: ​[6]Template:Refn
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| zero width non-joiner Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+200C Template:!! 8204 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:Partial | ? Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Other, Format |
ZWNJ, zero-width non-joiner. When placed between two characters that would otherwise be connected, a ZWNJ causes them to be printed in their final and initial forms, respectively. HTML/XML named entity: ‌
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| zero width joiner Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+200D Template:!! 8205 | Template:!! Template:Yes Template:!! Template:Partial | ? Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Other, Format |
ZWJ, zero-width joiner. When placed between two characters that would otherwise not be connected, a ZWJ causes them to be printed in their connected forms. Can also be used to display joining forms in isolation. Depending on whether a ligature or conjunct is expected by default, can either induce (as in emoji and in Sinhala) or suppress (as in Devanagari) substitution with a single glyph, whilst still permitting use of individual joining forms (unlike ZWNJ). HTML/XML named entity: ‍
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| word joiner Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+2060 Template:!! 8288 | Template:!! Template:No Template:!! Template:No | ? Template:!! General Punctuation Template:!! Other, Format |
WJ, word joiner. Similar to U+200B, but not a point at which a line may be broken. HTML/XML named entity: ⁠
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| zero width non-breaking space Template:!! Template:Hidden sort keyU+FEFF Template:!! 65279 | Template:!! Template:No Template:!! Template:No | ? Template:!! Arabic Presentation Forms-B Template:!! Other, Format |
Zero-width non-breaking space. Used primarily as a Byte Order Mark. Use as an indication of non-breaking is deprecated as of Unicode 3.2; see U+2060 instead. | ||||||
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Template documentation
- ↑ "Character design standards – space characters". Character design standards. Microsoft. 1998–1999. Archived from the original on March 14, 2010. Retrieved 2009-05-18. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ The Unicode Standard 5.0, printed edition, p. 205; also available at "Chapter 6 — Writing Systems and Punctuation". The Unicode Standard 5.0, electronic edition. Unicode Consortium. 2006-07-14. p. 11 (205). https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch06.pdf. Retrieved on 2022-12-22.
- ↑ "General Punctuation" (PDF). The Unicode Standard 5.1. Unicode Inc. 1991–2008. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
- ↑ Sargent, Murray III (2006-08-29). "Unicode Nearly Plain Text Encoding of Mathematics (Version 2)". Unicode Technical Note #28. Unicode Inc. pp. 19–20. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
- ↑ Gillam, Richard (2002). Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-70052-2.
- ↑ Hickson, Ian. "12.5 Named character references". HTML Standard. WHATWG.