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IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE
U+3000 IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE

IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE

Whitespace character with specific width or line-breaking semantics.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE
Code Point U+3000
Decimal Value 12288
General Category Space Separator (Zs) →
Unicode Block CJK Symbols and Punctuation →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E3 80 80
UTF-16 Code Unit 3000
UTF-32 4 bytes 00003000
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 30 00 LE: 00 30
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 30 00 LE: 00 30 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal  
HTML Hexadecimal  
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \003000
JavaScript (ES6) \u3000
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u3000
JSON Escape \u3000
Python \u3000
PHP "\u{3000}"
Java "\u3000"
C / C++ "\u3000"
Rust '\u{3000}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E3%80%80

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition <wide> 0020 wide
NFC / NFD Forms Compatibility decomposition (<wide>): 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+3000 represents a IDEOGRAPHIC 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 IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE

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

Identifier U+3000

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