U+2001 EM QUAD

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Decimal / Nº
8193
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
White Space
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a canonical composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2001, officially named EM QUAD, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Space Separator, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a canonical composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an White Space character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8193 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 80 81 Copied!
UTF-16 20 01 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 20 01 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%80%81 Copied!
HTML hex reference   Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2001' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2001 Copied!
C and C++ \u2001 Copied!
C# \u2001 Copied!
CSS \002001 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8193) Copied!
Go \u2001 Copied!
JavaScript \u2001 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2001} Copied!
JSON \u2001 Copied!
Java \u2001 Copied!
Lua \u{2001} Copied!
Matlab char(8193) Copied!
Perl \x{2001} Copied!
PHP \u{2001} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2001' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2001} Copied!
Python \u2001 Copied!
Ruby \u{2001} Copied!
Rust \u{2001} Copied!