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WJ
U+2060 · WORD JOINER

Word Joiner

  • CodepointU+2060
  • NameWORD JOINER
  • Decimal8288
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version3.2 (2002)
  • Bidi classBN — Boundary Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2060 is WORD JOINER, 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 3.2 (2002).

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: WJ.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 81 A03 bytes
UTF-1620601 code unit
UTF-32000020604 bytes
HTML named⁠named character reference
HTML decimal⁠
HTML hex⁠
CSS\2060in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2060
JSON\u2060
Python\u2060
Python\N{WORD JOINER}by name
Java / C#\u2060
C / C++\u2060universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2060}
Go\u2060
Ruby\u2060
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8288)
URL-encoded%E2%81%A0percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+205A⁚Two Dot Punctuation U+205B⁛Four Dot Mark U+205C⁜Dotted Cross U+205D⁝Tricolon U+205E⁞Vertical Four Dots U+205FMMSPMedium Mathematical Space U+2061U+2061Function Application U+2062U+2062Invisible Times U+2063U+2063Invisible Separator U+2064U+2064Invisible Plus U+2066LRILeft-To-Right Isolate