What is the difference between Ogham Space Mark and Space?

Ogham Space Mark is U+1680 in the Ogham block. Space is U+0020 in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Ogham Space Mark?

The HTML entity for Ogham Space Mark (U+1680) is .

What is the HTML entity for Space?

The HTML entity for Space (U+0020) is .

Are Ogham Space Mark and Space the same Unicode character?

No. Ogham Space Mark is U+1680 (decimal 5760) and Space is U+0020 (decimal 32). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Ogham Space Mark and Space?

Ogham Space Mark (U+1680) encodes as E1 9A 80 in UTF-8. Space (U+0020) encodes as 20 in UTF-8.

Ogham Space Mark vs Space

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

Ogham Space Mark

U+1680

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Space

U+0020

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Property Comparison

Property	Ogham Space Mark	Space
Codepoint	`U+1680`	`U+0020`
Decimal	`5760`	`32`
HTML Entity	` `	` `
HTML Decimal	` `	` `
HTML Hex	` `	` `
UTF-8	`E1 9A 80`	`20`
UTF-16	`16 80`	`00 20`
UTF-32	`00001680`	`00000020`
CSS Escape	`\1680`	`\20`
JS Escape	`\u1680`	`\u0020`
Python Escape	`\u1680`	`\u0020`
URL Encoded	`%E1%9A%80`	`%20`
Category	`Space Separator (Zs)`	`Space Separator (Zs)`
Block	`Ogham`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Ogham`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`WS`	`WS`
Unicode Version	`3.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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