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Character Tie vs Zero Width Space

Character Tie
2040
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Zero Width Space
200B
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Property Comparison

Property ⁀ 2040 ​ 200B
Name Character Tie Zero Width Space
Category Punctuation Punctuation
Block General Punctuation General Punctuation
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Connector Punctuation (Pc) Format (Cf)
Bidirectional ON BN

Encoding Comparison

Format 2040 200B
Unicode U+2040 U+200B
HTML Decimal ⁀ ​
HTML Hex ⁀ ​
CSS \2040 \200B
JavaScript \u{2040} \u{200B}
Python \u2040 \u200b
UTF-8 e2 81 80 e2 80 8b

How to Distinguish

Both Character Tie and Zero Width Space belong to the Punctuation category and the General Punctuation block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.

Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use charCodeAt() in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.

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