WORD JOINER
U+2060
WORD JOINER
WORD JOINER
Zero-width format control character governing layout and script joining.
Category:
Format (Cf)
Block:
General Punctuation
Script:
Common
Age:
Unicode 3.2
Plane:
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
Quick Facts
| Unicode Name |
WORD JOINER
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|---|---|---|
| Code Point |
U+2060
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| Decimal Value |
8288
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| General Category | Format (Cf) → | |
| Unicode Block | General Punctuation → | |
| Script | Common → | |
| Unicode Version | Unicode 3.2 → | |
| Unicode Plane |
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
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Byte Encodings
| UTF-8 3 bytes |
E2 81 A0
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|---|---|---|
| UTF-16 Code Unit |
2060
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| UTF-32 4 bytes |
00002060
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| UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
20 60
LE: 60 20
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| UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
00 00 20 60
LE: 60 20 00 00
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Developer Code Escapes
| HTML Decimal |
⁠
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|---|---|---|
| HTML Hexadecimal |
⁠
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| HTML Named Entity |
None
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| CSS Escape |
\002060
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| JavaScript (ES6) |
\u2060
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| JavaScript (UTF-16) |
\u2060
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| JSON Escape |
\u2060
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| Python |
\u2060
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| PHP |
"\u{2060}"
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| Java |
"\u2060"
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| C / C++ |
"\u2060"
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| Rust |
'\u{2060}'
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| URL Percent-Encoded |
%E2%81%A0
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Normalization & Decomposition
| Combining Class |
0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
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|---|---|---|
| Decomposition | None (Canonical / Precomposed Base) | |
| NFC / NFD Forms | Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD). |
Bidirectional Properties
| Bidi Class |
BN — Boundary Neutral
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|---|---|---|
| Bidi Mirrored | No |
Font Specimen & Rendering
Non-Printable Character Notice
Code point U+2060 represents a WORD JOINER (General Category Cf). It does not produce a visible standalone glyph in standard font engines and is intended for programmatic, syntactic, layout, or lexical operations.