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U+200C Zero Width Non-Joiner

U+200C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Format and inherits its script property from the preceding character.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Boundary Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+200C prohibits a line break before it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The zero-width non-joiner (ZWNJ, ; rendered: ‌; HTML entity: &zwnj; or ‌) is a non-printing character used in the computerization of writing systems that make use of ligatures. When placed between two characters that would otherwise be connected into a ligature, a ZWNJ causes them to be printed in their final and initial forms, respectively. This is also an effect of a space character, but a ZWNJ is used when it is desirable to keep the characters closer together or to connect a word with its morpheme.
The ZWNJ is encoded in Unicode as U+200C ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER (&zwnj;).

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	8204
UTF-8	E2 80 8C
UTF-16	20 0C
UTF-32	00 00 20 0C
URL-Quoted	%E2%80%8C
HTML hex reference	‌
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	â€Œ
HTML named entity	&zwnj;
abbreviation	ZWNJ
Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes)	9D
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 36 A4 38
AGL: Latin-5	uni200C
Adobe Glyph List	afii61664
Adobe Glyph List	zerowidthnonjoiner

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	General Punctuation
General Category (gc)	Format
Script (sc)	Inherited
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Boundary Neutral
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Zero Width Non-Joiner
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Zero Width Non-Joiner
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Zero Width Non-Joiner
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Zero Width Non-Joiner
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Zero Width Non-Joiner
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Zero Width Non-Joiner
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Zero Width Non-Joiner
Case Folding (cf)	Zero Width Non-Joiner
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✔
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✔
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Zero Width Non-Joiner
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Extend
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✘
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✔
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✔
ID Start (IDS)	✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Non_Joiner
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✔
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✔
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✔
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Extend
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Extend
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✔
XID Start (XIDS)	✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Zero Width Non-Joiner
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Combining Mark
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Zero Width Non-Joiner
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R