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In writing, a space is any empty (non-written) zone between written sections. The term however is usually referred to an empty zone used for Interword Separation (''interword space'').

Not all languages use spaces between words; the ancient Latin and Greek did not. Spaces were not used to separate words until roughly and Japanese (except when written with little or no Kanji ) still do not, but modern Korean uses spaces.

For use of spaces after full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks, see discussion in the article Full Stop .


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In typography there are various kinds of interword spaces, mainly differing in their width. Correspondingly, even more Space Character s exist in computing to combine the different width with different word-breaking properties in dynamic rearrangement of text.

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  • Hair space — the narrowest of metallic spaces in typesetting or the narrowest space used in typography (Unicode: U+200A)


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