U+2009 " " Thin Space Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2009 " " Thin Space is a typographic whitespace character, five eighths of an em in width, designed to create a subtle but visible separation between elements without the full gap of a standard space. It is commonly used in French typography to punctuate dialogue with guillemets, in mathematical formulas to distinguish operators from operands, and in general text for formatting units, numbers, or initials for a more polished appearance. Unlike a nonbreaking space, it normally allows text to wrap at its position, but it can be combined with other space characters to fine tune visual spacing in digital documents and web content.

General Properties

Code Point U+2009
Version Added 1.1
Name Thin Space
Block General Punctuation
General Category Space Separator
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class White Space
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "SP" U+0020 Space

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding  
HTML Hex Encoding  
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x80 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2009
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002009
C/C++/Java Escape \u2009

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check 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