Unicode Space

As of version 3.2, the Unicode standard has 22 semantically distinct space characters. They are enumerated below, separated by code block.

The columns below should be interpreted as :

1. The Unicode code for the character
2. The character in question
3. The Unicode name for the character
4. The HTML entity if any. (&#xUUUU; always works)

 

C0 Controls and Basic Latin

U+0020     space

 

C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement

U+00a0     no break space  

 

Ogham

U+1680     ogham space mark

 

General Punctuation

U+2000     en quad
U+2001     em quad
U+2002     en space  
U+2003     em space  
U+2004     three per em space
U+2005     four per em space
U+2006     six per em space
U+2007     figure space
U+2008     punctuation space
U+2009     thin space  
U+200a     hair space
U+200b  ​  zero width space
U+202f     narrow no break space
U+205f     medium mathematical space

 

Control Pictures

U+2420  ␠  symbol for space

 

CJK Symbols and Punctuation

U+3000  　  ideographic space
U+303f  〿  ideographic half fill space

 

Arabic Presentation Forms B

U+feff    zero width no break space

 

Tags

U+e0020  󠀠  tag space