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NBSP
U+00A0 · NO-BREAK SPACE

No-Break Space

  • CodepointU+00A0
  • NameNO-BREAK SPACE
  • Decimal160
  • BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryZs — Space Separator
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classCS — Common Separator
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+00A0 is NO-BREAK SPACE, a space character in the Latin-1 Supplement block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a no-break variant of U+0020 (compatibility decomposition <noBreak>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0020. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

It has the Unicode White_Space property, so regular-expression \s in most Unicode-aware engines and trimming functions such as JavaScript trim() treat it as whitespace.

Common abbreviation: NBSP.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8C2 A02 bytes
UTF-1600A01 code unit
UTF-32000000A04 bytes
HTML named&nbsp;named character reference
HTML named&NonBreakingSpace;named character reference
HTML decimal&#160;
HTML hex&#xA0;
CSS\A0in content: "…"
JavaScript\u00A0
JSON\u00A0
Python\u00A0
Python\N{NO-BREAK SPACE}by name
Java / C#\u00A0
C / C++\u00A0universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{A0}
Go\u00A0
Ruby\u00A0
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(160)
URL-encoded%C2%A0percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0020
NFKDU+0020
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0020SPSpace U+2000U+2000En Quad U+2001U+2001Em Quad U+2002U+2002En Space U+2003U+2003Em Space U+2004U+2004Three-Per-Em Space U+2005U+2005Four-Per-Em Space U+2006U+2006Six-Per-Em Space U+2007U+2007Figure Space U+2008U+2008Punctuation Space U+2009U+2009Thin Space U+200AU+200AHair Space U+2028U+2028Line Separator U+2029U+2029Paragraph Separator U+202FNNBSPNarrow No-Break Space U+205FMMSPMedium Mathematical Space
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Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement

All in block →
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