# U+2008 PUNCTUATION SPACE

Invisible narrow space the width of a period, used to align punctuation in typesetting.

| | |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2008 |
| Name | PUNCTUATION SPACE |
| Block | [General Punctuation](https://unicodekit.com/block/general-punctuation) |
| Script | Common |
| Category | Space Separator (Zs) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | ` ` ` ` |
| CSS | `\2008` |
| JavaScript | `\u2008` |
| UTF-8 | E2 80 88 |
| UTF-16 | 2008 |
| Decomposition | compat U+0020 |

## Notes

- space equal to narrow punctuation of a font, typically set to the same width as full stop 002E

## Related characters

- [U+2007 FIGURE SPACE](https://unicodekit.com/char/2007)
- [U+2009 THIN SPACE](https://unicodekit.com/char/2009)
- [U+2006 SIX-PER-EM SPACE](https://unicodekit.com/char/2006)
- [U+200A HAIR SPACE](https://unicodekit.com/char/200A)
- [U+2005 FOUR-PER-EM SPACE](https://unicodekit.com/char/2005)
- [U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE](https://unicodekit.com/char/200B)
- [U+2004 THREE-PER-EM SPACE](https://unicodekit.com/char/2004)
- [U+200C ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER](https://unicodekit.com/char/200C)
- [U+2003 EM SPACE](https://unicodekit.com/char/2003)
- [U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER](https://unicodekit.com/char/200D)
- [U+2002 EN SPACE](https://unicodekit.com/char/2002)
- [U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK](https://unicodekit.com/char/200E)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/2008 · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/2008