Invisible Characters

Invisible characters are Unicode characters that take up space but don't display visible glyphs. They're useful for formatting, creating special effects in text, or even hiding messages.

How to Use

Click on any character in the table to copy it to your clipboard. Since these characters are invisible, you won't see them when pasted, but they'll be there! Try pasting between visible characters to see the effect.

A collection of invisible Unicode characters
Character	Name	Unicode	Description
Zero Width Space	Zero Width Space	U+200B	Invisible space character with zero width. Used to create line breaks in text without visible spaces.
Zero Width Non-Joiner	Zero Width Non-Joiner	U+200C	Prevents characters from joining or forming ligatures when rendered.
Zero Width Joiner	Zero Width Joiner	U+200D	Invisible character that causes adjacent characters to be joined. Used in emoji sequences.
Word Joiner	Word Joiner	U+2060	Similar to zero-width space but prevents line breaks between characters.
Soft Hyphen	Soft Hyphen	U+00AD	Invisible until needed for hyphenation at line breaks.
Function Application	Function Application	U+2061	Invisible operator used in mathematical notation.
Invisible Times	Invisible Times	U+2062	Invisible multiplication operator used in mathematical notation.
Invisible Separator	Invisible Separator	U+2063	Invisible separator used in mathematical notation.
Invisible Plus	Invisible Plus	U+2064	Invisible addition operator used in mathematical notation.
Byte Order Mark	Byte Order Mark	U+FEFF	Used to indicate the byte order of text files. Invisible in most contexts.
Left-to-Right Mark	Left-to-Right Mark	U+200E	Invisible character that affects text direction. Forces left-to-right rendering.
Right-to-Left Mark	Right-to-Left Mark	U+200F	Invisible character that affects text direction. Forces right-to-left rendering.
Hair Space	Hair Space	U+200A	Very narrow space, thinner than a thin space.
Thin Space	Thin Space	U+2009	Space character that is thinner than a regular space.

Fun Uses for Invisible Characters

Invisible Spaces in Usernames

Some platforms allow invisible characters in usernames. You can use zero-width spaces to create usernames that look identical to others but are actually different.

usernameusername (has invisible character)

Text Formatting Tricks

Use zero-width joiners to create custom emoji sequences or control how text is displayed in certain languages.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 (family emoji using ZWJ)

Hidden Messages

Insert invisible characters between visible text to hide messages that can only be revealed when the text is copied and analyzed.

This text has hidden characters

Bypassing Character Limits

Some systems count characters but don't properly handle zero-width characters, allowing you to insert more content than normally allowed.

Adding invisible characters