Technical information

Symbol
NameEn space
Unicode numberU+2002
CategorySpace symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character  , or U+2002, is known as the "En Space". It is part of the "General Punctuation" block and is categorized under the "Separator, Space" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a space character that is generally the width of a capital N in the current font, hence the name "En Space". It's primarily used in typography as a space character. The specific usage can vary based on the context and the typography rules of the language being written.

Encoding

HTML Entity 
HTML Entity (hex) 
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%80%82
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x80 0x82
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000000:10000010
UTF-160x2002
UTF-320x00002002

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2002"
CSS Code\2002
JavaScript"\u2002"
Perl\x{2002}
Python 2u"\u2002"
Python 3\u2002
Ruby\u{2002}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this   in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
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28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8194;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2002";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References