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NNBSP
U+202F · NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE

Narrow No-Break Space

  • CodepointU+202F
  • NameNARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
  • Decimal8239
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryZs — Space Separator
  • Unicode version3.0 (1999)
  • Bidi classCS — Common Separator
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+202F is NARROW NO-BREAK 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 3.0 (1999).

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: NNBSP.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 AF3 bytes
UTF-16202F1 code unit
UTF-320000202F4 bytes
HTML decimal&#8239;
HTML hex&#x202F;
CSS\202Fin content: "…"
JavaScript\u202F
JSON\u202F
Python\u202F
Python\N{NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE}by name
Java / C#\u202F
C / C++\u202Funiversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{202F}
Go\u202F
Ruby\u202F
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8239)
URL-encoded%E2%80%AFpercent-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+2008U+2008Punctuation Space U+2009U+2009Thin Space U+200AU+200AHair Space U+2028U+2028Line Separator U+2029U+2029Paragraph Separator U+205FMMSPMedium Mathematical Space
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2029U+2029Paragraph Separator U+202ALRELeft-To-Right Embedding U+202BRLERight-To-Left Embedding U+202CPDFPop Directional Formatting U+202DLROLeft-To-Right Override U+202ERLORight-To-Left Override U+2030‰Per Mille Sign U+2031‱Per Ten Thousand Sign U+2032′Prime U+2033″Double Prime U+2034‴Triple Prime U+2035‵Reversed Prime