U+2000 " " En Quad Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

 

U+2000 " " En Quad is a typographic space character defined as being exactly one en in width, which is traditionally half the width of an em quad, or roughly the width of a lowercase "n" in a given typeface. It belongs to the General Punctuation block and is primarily used in fine typography and typesetting to create precise, non-breaking horizontal spacing that is wider than a standard word space but less than an em quad, allowing for controlled alignment and layout in text without the flexible breaking behavior of regular spaces. Unlike normal spaces, the En Quad is intended to have a fixed, predictable width, making it a tool for advanced text composition rather than casual word separation.

General Properties

Code Point U+2000
Version Added 1.1
Name En Quad
Block General Punctuation
General Category Space Separator
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class White Space
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping " " U+2002 En Space

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding  
HTML Hex Encoding  
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x80 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2000
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002000
C/C++/Java Escape \u2000

Unicode Properties

Full Composition Exclusion Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Break After
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "SP" U+0020 Space
NFKC Simple Casefold "SP" U+0020 Space
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
White Space Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break WSegSpace
Sentence Break Sp