Unicode Character " " (U+2001)

The character   (Em Quad) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2001. It is encoded in the General Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as  .

Main Unicode Properties

Name Em Quad
Unicode Codepoint U+2001
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block General Punctuation
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class White Space (WS)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Space Separator
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+2001 Conversion

HTML (decimal)  
HTML (hex)  
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%80%81
CSS \002001
JavaScript, JSON \u2001
C, C++, Java \u2001
Python \u2001
Rust \u{2001}
Ruby \u2001

How to type " "

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 0 0 1. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 0 0 1. Release Alt.

Preview

  •  
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  •  
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  •  
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0x81
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2001
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002001

References