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U+2008
U+2008 · PUNCTUATION SPACE

Punctuation Space

  • CodepointU+2008
  • NamePUNCTUATION SPACE
  • Decimal8200
  • 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+2008 is PUNCTUATION SPACE, 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 compatibility variant of U+0020 (compatibility decomposition <compat>). 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.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 883 bytes
UTF-1620081 code unit
UTF-32000020084 bytes
HTML named&puncsp;named character reference
HTML decimal&#8200;
HTML hex&#x2008;
CSS\2008in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2008
JSON\u2008
Python\u2008
Python\N{PUNCTUATION SPACE}by name
Java / C#\u2008
C / C++\u2008universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2008}
Go\u2008
Ruby\u2008
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8200)
URL-encoded%E2%80%88percent-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+00A0NBSPNo-Break Space 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+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+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+2009U+2009Thin Space U+200AU+200AHair Space U+200BZWSPZero Width Space U+200CZWNJZero Width Non-Joiner U+200DZWJZero Width Joiner U+200ELRMLeft-To-Right Mark