Thin Space

U+2009
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
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Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+2009
Decimal
8201
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Space Separator (Zs)
Script
Common
Bidi class
WS Whitespace
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Whitespace

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Thin Space.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
 
HTML Hex
 
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 80 89
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
20 09
UTF-32 Hex
00002009
CSS Escape
\2009
JavaScript Escape
\u2009
Python Escape
\u2009
URL Encoded
%E2%80%89
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Normalization Forms

Unicode defines four normalization forms that affect how characters with diacritics, compatibility variants, and combining marks are represented. This character has a non-trivial normalization — the forms below differ from its codepoint. Mismatched normalization is the most common cause of failed string comparisons across systems.

NFC = Canonical Decomposition then Canonical Composition (preferred for storage) · NFD = Canonical Decomposition · NFKC/NFKD = Compatibility forms (fold variants like fi → fi)

Decomposition

This character can be broken down into a sequence of simpler Unicode codepoints. This is a compatibility decomposition — the character is a stylistic or semantic variant of its components, not an exact equivalent.

compat U+0020