Narrow No-Break Space combines the two properties you most often want together: a narrow typographic gap, and a guarantee that the text on either side will never be split across a line.
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| Unicode code point | U+202F |
|---|---|
| Character name | Narrow No-Break Space |
| Unicode category | Zs (Space Separator) |
| Rendered width | Narrow, similar to Thin Space |
| Line breaking | Non-breaking - a line will never wrap here |
| Collapses in HTML | No |
| Survives trim() | Usually yes |
| HTML entity | |
| JavaScript escape | '\u202F' |
| CSS escape | \202F |
Need these values in another format? The HTML space characters converter turns any Unicode whitespace character into HTML entities, JavaScript escapes and CSS escapes.
U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE, often abbreviated NNBSP, is roughly the width of a Thin Space but behaves like a No-Break Space. It was encoded specifically for Mongolian typography, where it also triggers particular letter shaping, but it has been adopted far more widely for its line-breaking behaviour.
It is now the character French typography calls for before high punctuation - the space before ; : ! and ? that must never fall at the start of a line - and the preferred thousands separator in international number formatting, where you want 1 000 000 to stay in one piece.
The same character can be preserved in one place and silently removed in another. Here is what actually happens to Narrow No-Break Space in the three contexts that matter most.
Does not collapse and never breaks, so formatted numbers and punctuation stay intact through reflow.
Usually survives trimming, as it is not ASCII whitespace.
Generally preserved, though narrow enough to go unnoticed.
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Number formatting and French punctuation - anywhere you need a narrow gap that will never become a line break.
If what you actually need is text that looks completely empty - a blank WhatsApp message, an empty Instagram highlight name, a blank comment or a Free Fire name space - then Hangul Filler is the character to use, because it is not classified as whitespace and survives the trimming that removes Narrow No-Break Space.
Different apps prefer different Unicode characters. Start with these combinations.
Best first choice: Hangul Filler (U+3164). Alternatives: Zero Width Space and No-Break Space.
Best first choice: Hangul Filler. Alternative for tighter formatting: Zero Width Space.
Start with Hangul Filler. If the game rejects it, try Space or No-Break Space.
Use No-Break Space for preventing line breaks, EN Space and EM Space for wider spacing, and Thin Space or Hair Space for finer adjustments. For code-ready values and conversion, see HTML Space Characters.
Width is the fastest way to choose between these characters. If Narrow No-Break Space is not right for your use case, one of these probably is.
| Character | Unicode | Width |
|---|---|---|
| Medium Mathematical Space | U+205F | Exactly 4/18 em - two ninths of the font size |
| Hangul Filler | U+3164 | Renders blank; width varies by platform, often zero or narrow |
| Ideographic Space | U+3000 | Exactly 1 em - full-width, matching a CJK character |
| Left-To-Right Mark | U+200E | Zero - it is a formatting mark, not a space |
| Right-To-Left Mark | U+200F | Zero - it is a formatting mark, not a space |
| Space | U+0020 | Font-dependent, typically about 1/4 em |
| No-Break Space | U+00A0 | Same width as a regular space in the current font |
| Zero Width Space | U+200B | Zero - it occupies no horizontal space at all |
| EN Space | U+2002 | Exactly 1/2 em - half the current font size |
| EM Space | U+2003 | Exactly 1 em - equal to the current font size |
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Width. Both refuse to break across lines, but No-Break Space matches the font's regular space while Narrow No-Break Space is roughly the width of a Thin Space.
Because a comma or period means different things in different countries, while a narrow space is unambiguous. Making it non-breaking ensures the number never splits across two lines.
French convention puts a space before high punctuation such as ; : ! and ?. That space must be narrow, and it must never fall at the start of a line - which is exactly what NNBSP provides.
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