U+034F "͏" Combining Grapheme Joiner Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
͏
U+034F "͏" Combining Grapheme Joiner is an invisible, non-printing character designed to prevent two adjacent graphemes from being treated as a single ligature or digraph in text rendering, effectively forcing them to remain separate in contexts where a system might otherwise merge them. This character, which has no visible glyph and occupies zero width, is primarily used in specialized linguistic, transliteration, or scholarly applications to maintain the distinct identity of individual characters in sequences that could be misinterpreted by typographic or text-processing software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+034F |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Combining Grapheme Joiner |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | CGJ (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ͏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ͏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xCD 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x034F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000034F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u034f |