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EM QUAD
U+2001 EM QUAD

EM QUAD

Whitespace character with specific width or line-breaking semantics.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name EM QUAD
Code Point U+2001
Decimal Value 8193
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 81
UTF-16 Code Unit 2001
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002001
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 01 LE: 01 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 01 LE: 01 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal  
HTML Hexadecimal  
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \002001
JavaScript (ES6) \u2001
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2001
JSON Escape \u2001
Python \u2001
PHP "\u{2001}"
Java "\u2001"
C / C++ "\u2001"
Rust '\u{2001}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%80%81

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition 2003 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+2001 represents a EM 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 EM QUAD

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

Identifier U+2001

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