U+2800 "⠀" Braille Pattern Blank Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⠀
U+2800 "⠀" Braille Pattern Blank is a unique and frequently misunderstood code point that represents a completely empty braille cell, one where no dots are raised. Although it is technically a visible character in the Unicode standard, intended primarily for braille transcription to preserve the spatial alignment of dot patterns, it appears visually as an invisible space in most text renderings. This can lead to confusion because it is often copied or pasted into text without the user's awareness, creating an invisible character that behaves differently from a standard space or a non-breaking space, sometimes breaking web forms or text processing tools that treat it as a valid character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2800 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Braille Pattern Blank |
| Block | Braille Patterns |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⠀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⠀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xA0 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2800 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002800 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2800 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Break After |
| Script | Braille |
| Script Extensions | Braille |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |