Unicode Character " " (U+2009)

The character (Thin Space) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2009. 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 Thin Space
Unicode Codepoint U+2009
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+2009 Conversion

HTML (decimal)  
HTML (hex)  
HTML (named)  
URL Escape Code %E2%80%89
CSS \002009
JavaScript, JSON \u2009
C, C++, Java \u2009
Python \u2009
Rust \u{2009}
Ruby \u2009

How to type " "

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 0 0 9. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 0 0 9. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0x89
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2009
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002009

References