U+3000 " " Ideographic Space Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+3000 " " Ideographic Space is a whitespace character specifically designed for use in East Asian typography, particularly in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) scripts, where it represents a full width space that is equal in size to a single CJK character, unlike the regular ASCII space which is narrower. It is commonly employed to create visual separation between words or to align text in traditional written formats, and its width matches the grid based layout of these scripts, ensuring consistency in spacing when mixed with other ideographic characters. This character occupies a distinct role in digital text processing, as it is treated as a separate Unicode entity from other space variants and is essential for proper formatting in languages that do not use spaces between words in the same way as Western languages.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
　 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
　 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE3 0x80 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x3000 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00003000 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u3000 |
Unicode Properties