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EM SPACE
U+2003 EM SPACE

EM SPACE

Whitespace character with specific width or line-breaking semantics.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name EM SPACE
Code Point U+2003
Decimal Value 8195
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 83
UTF-16 Code Unit 2003
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002003
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 03 LE: 03 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 03 LE: 03 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal  
HTML Hexadecimal  
HTML Named Entity  
CSS Escape \002003
JavaScript (ES6) \u2003
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2003
JSON Escape \u2003
Python \u2003
PHP "\u{2003}"
Java "\u2003"
C / C++ "\u2003"
Rust '\u{2003}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%80%83

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition <compat> 0020 compat
NFC / NFD Forms Compatibility decomposition (<compat>): NFKD/NFKC normalize to equivalent base characters.

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class WSWhitespace
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Non-Printable Character Notice

Code point U+2003 represents a EM SPACE (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 SPACE

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

Identifier U+2003

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