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MMSP
U+205F · MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE

Medium Mathematical Space

  • CodepointU+205F
  • NameMEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE
  • Decimal8287
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryZs — Space Separator
  • Unicode version3.2 (2002)
  • Bidi classWS — Whitespace
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+205F is MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL 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 3.2 (2002).

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.

Common abbreviation: MMSP.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 81 9F3 bytes
UTF-16205F1 code unit
UTF-320000205F4 bytes
HTML named&MediumSpace;named character reference
HTML decimal&#8287;
HTML hex&#x205F;
CSS\205Fin content: "…"
JavaScript\u205F
JSON\u205F
Python\u205F
Python\N{MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE}by name
Java / C#\u205F
C / C++\u205Funiversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{205F}
Go\u205F
Ruby\u205F
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8287)
URL-encoded%E2%81%9Fpercent-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+202FNNBSPNarrow No-Break Space
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2059⁙Five Dot Punctuation U+205A⁚Two Dot Punctuation U+205B⁛Four Dot Mark U+205C⁜Dotted Cross U+205D⁝Tricolon U+205E⁞Vertical Four Dots U+2060WJWord Joiner U+2061U+2061Function Application U+2062U+2062Invisible Times U+2063U+2063Invisible Separator U+2064U+2064Invisible Plus