This character is a Space Separator and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as thick space.
The glyph is a compatibility version of the glyph Space. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as White Space. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+2004 offers a line break opportunity after its position. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
8196
UTF-8
E2 80 84
UTF-16
20 04
UTF-32
00 00 20 04
URL-Quoted
%E2%80%84
HTML hex reference
 
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
 
HTML named entity
 
alias
thick space
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 36 A4 30
LATEX
\hspace{0.33em}
digraph
3M
RFC 5137
\u'2004'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u2004
C and C++
\u2004
C#
\u2004
CSS
\002004
Excel
=UNICHAR(8196)
Go
\u2004
JavaScript
\u2004
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{2004}
JSON
\u2004
Java
\u2004
Lua
\u{2004}
Matlab
char(8196)
Perl
"\x{2004}"
PHP
\u{2004}
PostgreSQL
U&'\2004'
PowerShell
`u{2004}
Python
\u2004
Ruby
\u{2004}
Rust
\u{2004}
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