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ZWNJ
U+200C · ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER

Zero Width Non-Joiner

  • CodepointU+200C
  • NameZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
  • Decimal8204
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptInherited
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classBN — Boundary Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+200C is ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER, an invisible format character in the General Punctuation block. Its script is Inherited: it takes on the script of the character it attaches to. 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.

It is a join control: it changes whether neighbouring characters connect or form a ligature. The zero width joiner also glues emoji into combined sequences — see emoji ZWJ sequences.

Common abbreviation: ZWNJ.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 8C3 bytes
UTF-16200C1 code unit
UTF-320000200C4 bytes
HTML named‌named character reference
HTML decimal‌
HTML hex‌
CSS\200Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u200C
JSON\u200C
Python\u200C
Python\N{ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER}by name
Java / C#\u200C
C / C++\u200Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{200C}
Go\u200C
Ruby\u200C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8204)
URL-encoded%E2%80%8Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2006U+2006Six-Per-Em Space U+2007U+2007Figure Space U+2008U+2008Punctuation Space U+2009U+2009Thin Space U+200AU+200AHair Space U+200BZWSPZero Width Space U+200DZWJZero Width Joiner U+200ELRMLeft-To-Right Mark U+200FRLMRight-To-Left Mark U+2010‐Hyphen U+2011‑Non-Breaking Hyphen U+2012‒Figure Dash