Technical information
| Symbol | | |
| Name | Word joiner | |
| Unicode number | U+2060 | |
| Category | Space symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character U+2060, is known as the "Word Joiner". It falls under the "General Punctuation" block and is categorized under the "Format, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is used to prevent line breaks or word wraps at its position, effectively joining the words or characters on either side together for display purposes. It's a non-printing, zero-width character, which means it has no graphical representation and takes up no space. While it is technically present in the text, it does not visibly appear when the text is displayed. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ⁠ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ⁠ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%81%A0 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x81 0xA0 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000001:10100000 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2060 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002060 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2060" | |
| CSS Code | \2060 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2060" | |
| Perl | \x{2060} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2060" | |
| Python 3 | \u2060 | |
| Ruby | \u{2060} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .
input-group
Font size:
12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>⁠</span>
span {
content: "\2060";
}The symbol in different fonts
-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana