U+205F MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE

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Decimal / Nº
8287
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
White Space
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a compatibility composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+205F, officially named MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE, was introduced in Unicode version 3.2. 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 compatibility 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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8287 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 81 9F Copied!
UTF-16 20 5F Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 20 5F Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%81%9F Copied!
HTML hex reference   Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'205F' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u205F Copied!
C and C++ \u205f Copied!
C# \u205f Copied!
CSS \00205F Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8287) Copied!
Go \u205f Copied!
JavaScript \u205F Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{205f} Copied!
JSON \u205F Copied!
Java \u205F Copied!
Lua \u{205F} Copied!
Matlab char(8287) Copied!
Perl \x{205F} Copied!
PHP \u{205f} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\205F' Copied!
PowerShell `u{205F} Copied!
Python \u205f Copied!
Ruby \u{205f} Copied!
Rust \u{205f} Copied!