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U+2000
U+2000 · EN QUAD

En Quad

  • CodepointU+2000
  • NameEN QUAD
  • Decimal8192
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryZs — Space Separator
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classWS — Whitespace
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2000 is EN QUAD, a space character in the General Punctuation 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 canonical singleton: Unicode treats it as identical to U+2002, and every normalization form (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD) replaces it with that character. Text that must round-trip exactly should avoid it. See the normalization guide.

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.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 803 bytes
UTF-1620001 code unit
UTF-32000020004 bytes
HTML decimal 
HTML hex 
CSS\2000in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2000
JSON\u2000
Python\u2000
Python\N{EN QUAD}by name
Java / C#\u2000
C / C++\u2000universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2000}
Go\u2000
Ruby\u2000
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8192)
URL-encoded%E2%80%80percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCU+2002
NFDU+2002
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+00A0NBSPNo-Break Space 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 General Punctuation

All in block →
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