Menu
Home
People
Places
Arts
History
Plants & Animals
Science
Life & Culture
Technology
Reference.org
Zero-width joiner
open-in-new
<h2 id="examples">Examples</h2> <a href="/facts/Bengali%E2%80%93Assamese_script/YV3phTFD">Bengali</a><table><tbody><tr><th>Character sequence</th><th>Appearance</th></tr><tr><td>[ra র] [virāma ্ ] [ya য]</td><td>র্য</td></tr><tr><td>[ra র] [ZWJ] [virāma ্ ] [ya য]</td><td>র্য</td></tr></tbody></table> <a href="/facts/Devanagari_script/dQvQ3Ufs">Devanagari</a><table><tbody><tr><th>Character sequence</th><th>Appearance</th></tr><tr><td>[ka क] [virāma ्]</td><td>क्</td></tr><tr><td>[ka क] [virāma ्] [ZWJ]</td><td>क्</td></tr><tr><td>[ka क] [virāma ्] [ṣa ष]</td><td>क्ष</td></tr><tr><td>[ka क] [virāma ्] [ZWJ] [ṣa ष]</td><td>क्ष</td></tr></tbody></table> <a href="/facts/Kannada_script/LUbwH0pS">Kannada</a><table><tbody><tr><th>Character sequence</th><th>Appearance</th></tr><tr><td>[ra ರ] [virāma ್] [ka ಕ]</td><td>ರ್ಕ</td></tr><tr><td>[ra ರ] [ZWJ] [virāma ್] [ka ಕ]</td><td>ರ್ಕ</td></tr></tbody></table> <a href="/facts/Sinhala_script/2ynWA0GY">Sinhala</a><table><tbody><tr><th>Character sequence</th><th>Appearance</th></tr><tr><td>[śa ශ] [virāma ්] [ra ර]</td><td>ශ්ර</td></tr><tr><td>[śa ශ] [virāma ්] [ZWJ] [ra ර]</td><td>ශ්ර</td></tr></tbody></table> <a href="/facts/Malayalam_script/HDsBdkqw">Malayalam</a>(Until Unicode 5.0; in later editions, specific code points are allotted<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>)<table><tbody><tr><th>Character sequence</th><th>Appearance</th></tr><tr><td>[Na ണ] [virāma ്] [ZWJ]</td><td>ണ്</td></tr><tr><td>[na ന] [virāma ്] [ZWJ]</td><td>ന്</td></tr><tr><td>[ra ര] [virāma ്] [ZWJ] </td><td>ര്</td></tr><tr><td>[la ല] [virāma ്] [ZWJ] </td><td>ല്</td></tr><tr><td>[La ള] [virāma ്] [ZWJ] </td><td>ള്</td></tr></tbody></table> <a href="/facts/Emoji/Qkp7gwBH">Emoji</a><table><tbody><tr><th>Character sequence</th><th>Appearance</th><th>Description</th></tr><tr><td>[Man] [ZWJ] [Woman] [ZWJ] [Boy]</td><td>👨👩👦</td><td>Family: Man, Woman, Boy</td></tr><tr><td>[Waving white flag] [ZWJ] [Rainbow]</td><td>🏳️🌈</td><td>Rainbow Flag</td></tr><tr><td>[Runner] [Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-1-2] [ZWJ] [Female Sign]</td><td>🏃🏻♀️</td><td>Woman Running: Light Skin Tone</td></tr><tr><td>[Runner] [Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-6] [ZWJ] [Female Sign]</td><td>🏃🏿♀️</td><td>Woman Running: Dark Skin Tone</td></tr><tr><td>[Man] [ZWJ] [Red hair]</td><td>👨🦰</td><td>Man: Red Hair</td></tr><tr><td>[Person] [ZWJ] [Sheaf of rice]</td><td>👨🌾</td><td>Farmer</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Word_joiner/uJknlQwL">Word joiner</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Zero-width_non-joiner/ClTRhWLY">Zero-width non-joiner</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://unicode.org/review/pr-37.pdf">Proposal on Clarification and Consolidation of the Function of ZERO WIDTH JOINER in Indic Scripts</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"113 New Unicode Emoji (plus skin tones)". Unicode Blog. 2016-11-28. Retrieved 2021-01-14. <a href="http://blog.unicode.org/2016/11/113-new-unicode-emoji-plus-skin-tones.html" target="_blank">http://blog.unicode.org/2016/11/113-new-unicode-emoji-plus-skin-tones.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Constable, Peter (2004-06-30). "Proposal on Clarification and Consolidation of the Function of ZERO WIDTH JOINER in Indic Scripts" (PDF). Unicode Consortium. UTC L2/04-279, Public Review Issue #37. <a href="http://unicode.org/review/pr-37.pdf" target="_blank">http://unicode.org/review/pr-37.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"13.2. Sinhala (§ Virama (al-lakuna) and Consonant Forms)". The Unicode Standard, Core Specification. Unicode Consortium. Unless combined with a U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER, an al-lakuna is always visible and does not join consonants to form orthographic consonant clusters. […] Note how the use of ZWJ in Sinhala differs from that of typical Indic scripts. <a href="https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/chapter-13/#G38608" target="_blank">https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/chapter-13/#G38608</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Zero Width Joiner". Emojipedia. Retrieved 2015-09-21. <a href="http://emojipedia.org/zero-width-joiner/" target="_blank">http://emojipedia.org/zero-width-joiner/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"ചിത്രം:Inscript.jpg – Malayalam Computing" (in Malayalam). Malayalam.kerala.gov.in. Archived from the original on 2011-10-11. Retrieved 2011-10-22. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111011172849/http://malayalam.kerala.gov.in/index.php/%E0%B4%9A%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82:Inscript.jpg" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20111011172849/http://malayalam.kerala.gov.in/index.php/%E0%B4%9A%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82:Inscript.jpg</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Changes related to Malayalam in Unicode 5.1.0 from 5.0" (PDF). Unicode.org. Retrieved 2015-06-12. <a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07129-malayalam.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07129-malayalam.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>