ZERO WIDTH SPACE

Property Value
Codepoint U+200B
Literal Character
Name ZERO WIDTH SPACE
Sketch
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Control Character no
Block General Punctuation
Subblock Letter
UTF-8 byte encoding e2 80 8b
UTF-16 byte encoding 20 0b (big endian)
HTML Entity ​
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