U+034F "͏" Combining Grapheme Joiner Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

͏
Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+034F "͏" Combining Grapheme Joiner is an invisible, non-printing character designed to prevent two adjacent graphemes from being treated as a single ligature or digraph in text rendering, effectively forcing them to remain separate in contexts where a system might otherwise merge them. This character, which has no visible glyph and occupies zero width, is primarily used in specialized linguistic, transliteration, or scholarly applications to maintain the distinct identity of individual characters in sequences that could be misinterpreted by typographic or text-processing software.

General Properties

Code Point
U+034F
Name
Combining Grapheme Joiner
Alias
CGJ (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
͏
HTML Hex Encoding
͏
UTF-8 Encoding
0xCD 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding
0x034F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000034F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u034f