U+202F " " Narrow No-Break Space Unicode Character

U+202F " " Narrow No-Break Space is a typographic space character that prevents automatic line breaks between words or elements while occupying a width narrower than a standard space, typically about one fifth to one sixth of an em. It is commonly used in French, Breton, and other European languages to separate certain punctuation marks like the guillemet ( » ) or the semicolon from preceding words, and it also appears in Mongolian text and in units of measurement where a visual gap is desired without risking a line break. Unlike the regular no-break space, its reduced width helps maintain consistent typographic flow and visual balance in justified or tightly set text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+202F
Version Added	3.0
Name	Narrow No-Break Space
Block	General Punctuation
General Category	Space Separator
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Common Separator
Decomposition Type	Nobreak
Decomposition Mapping	"SP" U+0020 Space
Alias	NNBSP (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	 
HTML Hex Encoding	 
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0x80 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x202F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000202F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u202f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Non-breaking (“Glue”)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"SP" U+0020 Space
NFKC Simple Casefold	"SP" U+0020 Space
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Latin Mongolian Phags Pa
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
White Space	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Extend Num Let
Sentence Break	Sp