Unicode: Whitespace Characters Representation ⇄ ⇥ ↦ ▷ ␣ ¶ ⏎
Representation of Whitespace Characters by Visible Symbols
These are often used in text editor or word processor to indicate whitespace.
space
· ␣ ␠ ␢
· ␣ ␠ ␢
Tab
↹ ⇄ ⇤ ⇥ ↤ ↦ ◁ ▷
↹ ⇄ ⇤ ⇥ ↤ ↦ ◁ ▷
paragraph, section
¶ § 
¶ § 
newline, return
↵ ↩ ⏎ ⮐ ⮑ ⮒ ⮓
↵ ↩ ⏎ ⮐ ⮑ ⮒ ⮓
| Char | Unicode Name | CodePoint | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| · | MIDDLE DOT | U+00B7 | Useful when you want to show space as visible chars |
| ␣ | OPEN BOX | U+2423 | Useful when indicating keystrokes |
| ␠ | SYMBOL FOR SPACE | U+2420 | Useful in programing contexts. This usually indicates the ASCII 32. |
| ␢ | BLANK SYMBOL | U+2422 |
Unicode Whitespace Characters
Unicode characters with property White_Space=yes
| name | codepoint (hexadecimal) | codepoint (decimal) |
|---|---|---|
| character tabulation | U+0009 | 9 |
| line feed | U+000A | 10 |
| line tabulation | U+000B | 11 |
| form feed | U+000C | 12 |
| carriage return | U+000D | 13 |
| space | U+0020 | 32 |
| next line | U+0085 | 133 |
| no-break space | U+00A0 | 160 |
| ogham space mark | U+1680 | 5760 |
| en quad | U+2000 | 8192 |
| em quad | U+2001 | 8193 |
| en space | U+2002 | 8194 |
| em space | U+2003 | 8195 |
| three-per-em space | U+2004 | 8196 |
| four-per-em space | U+2005 | 8197 |
| six-per-em space | U+2006 | 8198 |
| figure space | U+2007 | 8199 |
| punctuation space | U+2008 | 8200 |
| thin space | U+2009 | 8201 |
| hair space | U+200A | 8202 |
| line separator | U+2028 | 8232 |
| paragraph separator | U+2029 | 8233 |
| narrow no-break space | U+202F | 8239 |
| medium mathematical space | U+205F | 8287 |
| ideographic space | U+3000 | 12288 |
Unicode Not Whitespace Whitespace
These are Unicode characters that are invisible, but technicaly not considered a whitespace. (they have the property White_Space=no)
| name | codepoint (hexadecimal) | codepoint (decimal) |
|---|---|---|
| mongolian vowel separator | U+180E | 6158 |
| zero width space | U+200B | 8203 |
| zero width non-joiner | U+200C | 8204 |
| zero width joiner | U+200D | 8205 |
| word joiner | U+2060 | 8288 |
| zero width non-breaking space | U+FEFF | 65279 |
Note: there are a lot more unicode characters that are invisible. For example, ASCII Control Characters.
Unicode Punctuations and Misc Symbols
- Common Unicode Characters ✓ © § ❦
- Punctuations • ✓ ™
- Whitespace ⇄ ⇥ ↦ ▷ ␣ ¶ ⏎
- Slash/Solidus / ⫽ ⫻
- Reference Marks † ‡ ¶ § ☛ ⁂
- Typography Ornaments ☙ 🙐 🙚 🙠 🙪 🙶 🙷
- Circled Numbers ① ② ③
- Squared Characters 🄰
- Japanese Enclosed Chars ㉆
- Tacks, Turnstiles ⊣ ⊢ ⊥ ⊤ ⫪ ⫫ ⫢
- Unicode Symbols for ASCII Control Characters ␀
- Bank OCR ⑆