This is the Unicode character HAIR SPACE, code point U+200A (decimal 8202) in the General Punctuation block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write  , and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E2 80 8A.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+200A |
| Decimal | 8202 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 80 8A |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 200A |
| UTF-32 | 0000200A |
| HTML decimal |   |
| HTML hex |   |
| HTML named |     |
| CSS | \200A |
| JavaScript | \u200A |
| JSON | \u200A |
| Python | \u200A |
| Python by name | \N{HAIR SPACE} |
| Java, C# | \u200A |
| Rust, Swift | \u{200A} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u200A |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E2%80%8A |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | HAIR SPACE |
| Code point | U+200A (decimal 8202) |
| Block | General Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F) |
| General category | Zs: Space separator |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | WS: Whitespace |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
HAIR SPACE has a compatibility decomposition (compat) to the sequence below. NFKC and NFKD normalisation replace it with that sequence, which can change how text looks, so use them for search, not for storage.
Nearby in General Punctuation
- U+2002 En Space
- U+2003 Em Space
- U+2004 Three-Per-Em Space
- U+2005 Four-Per-Em Space
- U+2006 Six-Per-Em Space
- U+2007 Figure Space
- U+2008 Punctuation Space
- U+2009 Thin Space
- U+200B Zero Width Space
- U+200C Zero Width Non-Joiner
- U+200D Zero Width Joiner
- U+200E Left-To-Right Mark
- U+200F Right-To-Left Mark
- ‐ U+2010 Hyphen
- ‑ U+2011 Non-Breaking Hyphen
- ‒ U+2012 Figure Dash
All 111 characters: General Punctuation.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for HAIR SPACE?
- Use the named entity  , or   (decimal) or   (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+200A?
- E2 80 8A (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E2%80%8A.
- How do I write U+200A in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u200A. Python: \u200A.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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