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 |