U+2060 "⁠" Word Joiner Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2060 "⁠" Word Joiner is an invisible formatting character used to indicate that two adjacent characters should be kept together on the same line, preventing a line break between them without creating a visible hyphen or space, and it is often employed in complex scripts like Arabic or in technical writing to maintain the integrity of expressions such as equations or abbreviations.

General Properties

Code Point U+2060
Version Added 3.2
Name Word Joiner
Block General Punctuation
General Category Format
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Boundary Neutral
Alias WJ (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⁠
HTML Hex Encoding ⁠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x81 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2060
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002060
C/C++/Java Escape \u2060

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Word Joiner
Case Ignorable Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Default Ignorable Code Point Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Cluster Break Control
Word Break Format
Sentence Break Format