# What does a zero-width joiner do?

A format character participating in context-sensitive shaping and some emoji sequences. Code points: U+200D. It does not ensure an emoji sequence or ligature will render as one glyph. No fallback is suggested. Font coverage, shaping, and application acceptance were not tested, so those results are unknown.

## Code points

- U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER

## What was checked

### Zero-width joiner

A format character participating in context-sensitive shaping and some emoji sequences.

It does not ensure an emoji sequence or ligature will render as one glyph.

Check the complete grapheme or emoji sequence and the target font/shaping engine.

## What this does not prove

No OS, font, browser, application, field policy or rendering engine was tested. Unicode validity and segmentation do not establish actual display or acceptance.

Unicode release recorded with this answer: 18.0.0.
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