Unicode Character "‌" (U+200C)

The character ‌ (Zero Width Non-Joiner) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+200C. 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 Zero Width Non-Joiner
Unicode Codepoint U+200C
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block General Punctuation
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Boundary Neutral (BN)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Format
Script Code for inherited script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+200C Conversion

HTML (decimal) ‌
HTML (hex) ‌
HTML (named) ‌
URL Escape Code %E2%80%8C
CSS \00200C
JavaScript, JSON \u200C
C, C++, Java \u200C
Python \u200C
Rust \u{200C}
Ruby \u200C

How to type "‌"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0x8C
UTF-16 (hex) 0x200C
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000200C

References