U+0020 SPACE: ␠ – Unicode (2024)

U+0020 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0000 to U+007F Basic Latin in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Space Separator and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as White Space. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+0020 allows line breaks at its position. The glyph can be confused with 19 other glyphs.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

In writing, a space ( ) is a blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables (in syllabification) and other written or printed glyphs (characters). Conventions for spacing vary among languages, and in some languages the spacing rules are complex. Inter-word spaces ease the reader's task of identifying words, and avoid outright ambiguities such as "now here" vs. "nowhere". They also provide convenient guides for where a human or program may start new lines.

Typesetting can use spaces of varying widths, just as it can use graphic characters of varying widths. Unlike graphic characters, typeset spaces are commonly stretched in order to align text. The typewriter, on the other hand, typically has only one width for all characters, including spaces. Following widespread acceptance of the typewriter, some typewriter conventions influenced typography and the design of printed works.

Computer representation of text facilitates getting around mechanical and physical limitations such as character widths in at least two ways:

• Character encodings such as Unicode provide spaces of several widths, which are encoded using distinct numeric code points. For example, Unicode U+0020 is the "normal" space character, but U+00A0 adds the meaning that a new line should not be started there, while U+2003 represents a space with a fixed width of one em. Collectively, such characters are called Whitespace characters.

• Formatting and drawing languages and software commonly provide much more flexibility in spacing. For example, SVG, PostScript, and countless other languages enable drawing characters at specific (x,y) coordinates on a screen or page. By drawing each word at a specific starting coordinate, such programs need not "draw" spaces at all (this can lead to difficulties in extracting the correct text back out). Similarly, word processors can "fully justify" text, stretching inter-word spaces to make all lines the same length (as can mechanical Linotype machines). Precision is limited by physical capabilities of output devices.

Representations

Related Characters

• Glyph for U+00A0 No-Break Space
• Glyph for U+00A8 Diaeresis
• Glyph for U+00AF Macron
• Glyph for U+00B4 Acute Accent
• Glyph for U+00B8 Cedilla
• Glyph for U+02D8 Breve
• Glyph for U+02D9 Dot Above
• Glyph for U+02DA Ring Above
• Glyph for U+02DB Ogonek
• Glyph for U+02DC Small Tilde
• Glyph for U+02DD Double Acute Accent
• Glyph for U+037A Greek Ypogegrammeni
• Glyph for U+0384 Greek Tonos
• Glyph for U+0385 Greek Dialytika Tonos
• Glyph for U+1FBD Greek Koronis
• Glyph for U+1FBF Greek Psili
• Glyph for U+1FC0 Greek Perispomeni
• Glyph for U+1FC1 Greek Dialytika and Perispomeni
• Glyph for U+1FCD Greek Psili and Varia
• Glyph for U+1FCE Greek Psili and Oxia
• Glyph for U+1FCF Greek Psili and Perispomeni
• Glyph for U+1FDD Greek Dasia and Varia
• Glyph for U+1FDE Greek Dasia and Oxia
• Glyph for U+1FDF Greek Dasia and Perispomeni
• Glyph for U+1FED Greek Dialytika and Varia
• Glyph for U+1FEE Greek Dialytika and Oxia
• Glyph for U+1FFD Greek Oxia
• Glyph for U+1FFE Greek Dasia
• Glyph for U+2000 En Quad
• Glyph for U+2001 Em Quad
• Glyph for U+2002 En Space
• Glyph for U+2003 Em Space
• Glyph for U+2004 Three-Per-Em Space
• Glyph for U+2005 Four-Per-Em Space
• Glyph for U+2006 Six-Per-Em Space
• Glyph for U+2007 Figure Space
• Glyph for U+2008 Punctuation Space
• Glyph for U+2009 Thin Space
• Glyph for U+200A Hair Space
• Glyph for U+2017 Double Low Line
• Glyph for U+202F Narrow No-Break Space
• Glyph for U+203E Overline
• Glyph for U+205F Medium Mathematical Space
• Glyph for U+3000 Ideographic Space
• Glyph for U+309B Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark
• Glyph for U+309C Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
• Glyph for U+FC5E Arabic Ligature Shadda with Dammatan Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FC5F Arabic Ligature Shadda with Kasratan Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FC60 Arabic Ligature Shadda with Fatha Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FC61 Arabic Ligature Shadda with Damma Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FC62 Arabic Ligature Shadda with Kasra Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FC63 Arabic Ligature Shadda with Superscript Alef Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FDFA Arabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam
• Glyph for U+FDFB Arabic Ligature Jallajalalouhou
• Glyph for U+FE49 Dashed Overline
• Glyph for U+FE4A Centreline Overline
• Glyph for U+FE4B Wavy Overline
• Glyph for U+FE4C Double Wavy Overline
• Glyph for U+FE70 Arabic Fathatan Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FE72 Arabic Dammatan Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FE74 Arabic Kasratan Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FE76 Arabic Fatha Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FE78 Arabic Damma Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FE7A Arabic Kasra Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FE7C Arabic Shadda Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FE7E Arabic Sukun Isolated Form
• Glyph for U+FFE3 Fullwidth Macron

Confusables

Elsewhere

• Unicode website
• Reference rendering on Unicode.org
• Fileformat.info
• Graphemica
• The UniSearcher
• Compart
• Wikipedia
• ScriptSource

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