unicode

U+200D

ZERO WIDTH JOINER

ZERO WIDTH JOINER · Format · General Punctuation · Inherited script

formatinvisibledefault-ignorablexid-continue

Quick facts

Code point: U+200D
Decimal: 8205
Name: ZERO WIDTH JOINER
General category: Cf — Format
Block: General Punctuation
Script: Inherited
Bidi class: BN
Combining class: 0
Age: 1.1
Name aliases: ZWJ (abbreviation)

Normalization & case

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

Layout & width

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

Binary properties

ID_ContinueXID_ContinueDefault_Ignorable_Code_PointEmoji_Component

Developer examples

JS: '\u{200d}' // U+200D
Python: "\N{ZERO WIDTH JOINER}"
HTML: ‍

Encodings & escapes

UTF-8
UTF-16
UTF-32
HTML decimal
HTML hex
HTML named
JavaScript
Python
CSS
JSON
URL (UTF-8)
C / C++

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

&zwj;

Block

General Punctuation

Category

Format

Script

Inherited

Source

Unicode: 16.0.0
WHATWG: —