Unsupported titles/Space

See also: Appendix:Blank characters and Appendix:Control characters

U+0020,   SPACE (Abbreviation: SP) [unassigned: U+0000–U+001F] Basic Latin ! → [U+0021]

Character variations

U+00A0,   NO-BREAK SPACE (Abbreviation: NBSP) [unassigned: U+007F–U+009F] ← ~ [U+007E] Latin-1 Supplement ¡ → [U+00A1]

U+2003,   EM SPACE ←   [U+2002] General Punctuation   → [U+2004]

U+2002,   EN SPACE ←   [U+2001] General Punctuation   → [U+2003]

U+2004,   THREE-PER-EM SPACE ←   [U+2003] General Punctuation   → [U+2005]

U+2005,   FOUR-PER-EM SPACE ←   [U+2004] General Punctuation   → [U+2006]

U+205F,   MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE (Abbreviation: MMSP) ← ⁞ [U+205E] General Punctuation → [U+2060]

U+2009,   THIN SPACE ←   [U+2008] General Punctuation   → [U+200A]

U+202F,   NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (Abbreviation: NNBSP) ← [U+202E] General Punctuation ‰ → [U+2030]

U+2006,   SIX-PER-EM SPACE ←   [U+2005] General Punctuation   → [U+2007]

U+200A,   HAIR SPACE ←   [U+2009] General Punctuation → [U+200B]

U+2007,   FIGURE SPACE ←   [U+2006] General Punctuation   → [U+2008]

U+2008,   PUNCTUATION SPACE ←   [U+2007] General Punctuation   → [U+2009]

U+3000, 　 IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE ← ⿿ [U+2FFF] CJK Symbols and Punctuation 、 → [U+3001]

Translingual

Etymology

The space left from omitting a word divider such as ⟨⸱⟩.

Punctuation mark

] [ (English name space)

1. A word divider: marks the separation between words written in various scripts, including Latin and Greek.

   Synonyms: ⸱, ፡

2. In some counting systems, including most international standards, separates groups of three consecutive digits in a number.

   Synonyms: (in other counting systems) ,; .; ٬; ’

3. (East Asia) The ideographic (fullwidth) space (　) is placed before a name to indicate respect.

   你是　神的兒子／你是　神的儿子  ―  nǐ shì, shén de érzǐ  ―  You are the son of God (referring to Jesus) [Chinese]

   • 1934 November 11, “校史 [xiàoshǐ]”, in 《國立中山大學成立十週年新校落成紀念冊》, page 1:

     況本校爲　總理所手創，於黨國關係彌切。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     况本校为　总理所手创，于党国关系弥切。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     Kuàng běnxiào wéi zǒnglǐ suǒ shǒuchuàng, yú dǎngguó guānxì mí qiè. [Pinyin]

     In addition, our school was founded by the Premier [of Kuomintang, i.e. Sun Yat-sen] himself, and is closely related to the Party and Country.

4. (East Asia) Used as a delimiter to separate the family name from the given name.

   司馬 遷 [Chinese]

   永 六輔 [Japanese]

5. Placed between each letter in a word to emphasize it, both in broad historical use and in modern situations where italics or boldface are unavailable, as in fraktur typefaces or plain-text electronic documents.

   Synonyms: / /, * *, _ _

   This idea is a m a z i n g.

Usage notes

The width of a space varies among different fonts and renderers. In electronic documents, most renderers introduce line breaks (wrap the line) at the last breaking space when a line of text exceeds the available display width, and will expand all normal spaces to justify columns of text. The non-breaking space, ] [, is an alternative to the usual space that can be entered to prevent a line of text from wrapping at its position, and may be used for example between a digit and a unit of measurement, such as 60 km/hr. The non-breaking space will not expand in justified text, and is the preferred white-space character to carry combining diacritics that do not have spacing variants in the font, such as with U+0311 to create / ̑/ as the long falling toneme in Serbo-Croatian.

In traditional metal type, the width of an 'em space' is the type size in points, whereas an 'en space' is half that. Thus, in 12-point text, an em space is 12 points wide, an en space 6 points, a three-per-em ('thick') space 4 points, a four-per-em ('mid') space 3 points, a six-per-em space 2 points, and a hairline space less than that. These conventions largely carry over into electronic documents, though whereas a 'thin space' is nominally five-per-em, in computer typography it may be conflated with six-per-em.

The figure space is used to align columns of numbers. It's the tabular width of the font, that is, the width of a digit in typefaces that have fixed-width digits. A punctuation space is the width of narrow punctuation such as a full stop, and is used for example to separate the thousands in strings of digits. Unicode defines a medium mathematical space as four-eighteenths of an em.

See also

• ␠, ␣, ] [ (“a visual symbol that represents the space”)
• quadrat

Symbol

] [ (English name space)

1. A control character that advances the typing position by a width of about one character, the reverse of backspace, chiefly in old typesetter technology but also in some electronic systems.

Further reading

• space (punctuation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nuo tai on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Appendix:Control characters