unicode

U+200C

ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER

ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER · Format · General Punctuation · Inherited script

formatinvisibledefault-ignorablexid-continue

Quick facts

Code point: U+200C
Decimal: 8204
Name: ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
General category: Cf — Format
Block: General Punctuation
Script: Inherited
Bidi class: BN
Combining class: 0
Age: 1.1
Name aliases: ZWNJ (abbreviation)

Normalization & case

Decomposition: —
Uppercase: —
Lowercase: —
Titlecase: —
Case folding: —
Bidi mirrored: No

Layout & width

East Asian Width: N
Line Break: CM
Numeric: —
Script extensions: —

Binary properties

ID_ContinueXID_ContinueDefault_Ignorable_Code_Point

Developer examples

JS: '\u{200c}' // U+200C
Python: "\N{ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER}"
HTML: ‌

Encodings & escapes

UTF-8
UTF-16
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Warnings

This character may be invisible or format-only in many fonts and editors.
Default ignorable: renderers may hide this character.
Often involved in invisible text, bidi tricks, or identifier confusion — handle carefully.

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HTML entity

&zwnj;

Block

General Punctuation

Category

Format

Script

Inherited

Source

Unicode: 16.0.0
WHATWG: —