ZERO WIDTH SPACE

Codepoint
U+200B
Literal Character
Name
ZERO WIDTH SPACE
Sketch
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Control Character
no
Subblock
Format characters
UTF-8 byte encoding
e2 80 8b
UTF-16 byte encoding
20 0b (big endian)
HTML Entity
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Perl string literal
\x{200B}
Comments
  • commonly abbreviated ZWSP
  • this character is intended for invisible word separation and for line break control; it has no width, but its presence between two characters does not prevent increased letter spacing in justification