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ZWSP
U+200B · ZERO WIDTH SPACE

Zero Width Space

  • CodepointU+200B
  • NameZERO WIDTH SPACE
  • Decimal8203
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classBN — Boundary Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+200B is ZERO WIDTH SPACE, an invisible format 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 invisible. It changes how surrounding text is processed or displayed but has no glyph of its own, which makes it easy to paste by accident.

It is a default-ignorable codepoint: when a font or renderer does not support it, it should be displayed as nothing at all rather than as a missing-glyph box.

Common abbreviation: ZWSP.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 8B3 bytes
UTF-16200B1 code unit
UTF-320000200B4 bytes
HTML named​named character reference
HTML named​named character reference
HTML named​named character reference
HTML decimal​
HTML hex​
CSS\200Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u200B
JSON\u200B
Python\u200B
Python\N{ZERO WIDTH SPACE}by name
Java / C#\u200B
C / C++\u200Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{200B}
Go\u200B
Ruby\u200B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8203)
URL-encoded%E2%80%8Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
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