Empty characters
Empty characters, blank characters, invisible characters and whitespace characters. They look like a space, but are in fact a different (unicode) character. They can be used if you want to represent an empty space without using space. Let's say you want to use an empty value in a website or application, but spaces are not accepted. For this situation you can use one of the characters on this site. For example, sending an empty message, or setting a form value to blank. If the application filters out other unicode characters then the characters on this site might not work.
Sending an empty message in WhatsApp
WhatsApp does not allow to send a blank messages using spaces. To work around this problem, you can use the blank character on this page. It is seen as a character different than space, but it looks the same. You can use it to send a invisible message, or set your WhatsApp status to empty.
Method 1 - Copy with a button
Click the button below to copy an empty character to your clipboard.
If this doesn't work on your device, use method 2.
Copy to clipboard
Method 2 - Copy manually
If the first method does not work for you, try this method. You can test if it works below.
Select and copy the content of the blue-bordered textarea below.
You can use the Select button under the textarea, and then copy the selected text manually.
Test it
Paste the empty character in the textarea below to test it. If it works, then the grey text should disappear.
Unicode empty characters
Are you looking for other empty or invisible characters? Below is a list of different whitespace unicode characters. Select and copy them from between the blue brackets in the example column.
| Unicode | HTML | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| U+0020 |   | Space | [ ] |
| U+00A0 |   | No-Break Space | [ ] |
| U+2000 |   | En Quad | [ ] |
| U+2001 |   | Em Quad | [ ] |
| U+2002 |   | En Space | [ ] |
| U+2003 |   | Em Space | [ ] |
| U+2004 |   | Three-Per-Em Space | [ ] |
| U+2005 |   | Four-Per-Em Space | [ ] |
| U+2006 |   | Six-Per-Em Space | [ ] |
| U+2007 |   | Figure Space | [ ] |
| U+2008 |   | Punctuation Space | [ ] |
| U+2009 |   | Thin Space | [ ] |
| U+200A |   | Hair Space | [ ] |
| U+2028 | 
 | Line Separator | [ ] |
| U+205F |   | Medium Mathematical Space | [ ] |
| U+3000 | 　 | Ideographic Space | [ ] |
More information
Check out the Wikipedia page about whitespace characters.
If you are looking for more information about Unicode empty characters, check out this page.
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