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EN QUAD
U+2000 EN QUAD

EN QUAD

Whitespace character with specific width or line-breaking semantics.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name EN QUAD
Code Point U+2000
Decimal Value 8192
General Category Space Separator (Zs) →
Unicode Block General Punctuation →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 80 80
UTF-16 Code Unit 2000
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002000
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 00 LE: 00 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 00 LE: 00 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal  
HTML Hexadecimal  
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \002000
JavaScript (ES6) \u2000
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2000
JSON Escape \u2000
Python \u2000
PHP "\u{2000}"
Java "\u2000"
C / C++ "\u2000"
Rust '\u{2000}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%80%80

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition 2002 canonical
NFC / NFD Forms NFD decomposes to constituent code points; NFC composes into this unified scalar.

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class WSWhitespace
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Non-Printable Character Notice

Code point U+2000 represents a EN QUAD (General Category Zs). It does not produce a visible standalone glyph in standard font engines and is intended for programmatic, syntactic, layout, or lexical operations.

Names & Aliases

Official Name EN QUAD

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+2000

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