Press Copy and paste where you want a blank: an empty WhatsApp message, a name with nothing in it, or a gap an app would otherwise remove. An ordinary space does not work, because apps delete it. These characters look blank but count as text.
Works in most apps, as a gap about one letter wide. (Hangul Filler)
Paste your blank text here to see that something is really there.
Copy the standard character above. If an app refuses it, pick Alternative and copy again.
Paste it in the message box and tap Send.
Open your server profile and paste it as your nickname.
Edit profile, then Name. Paste it and save.
Edit profile, then Name. Paste it and save. For blank lines in a caption or bio, use the Instagram line break generator.
Want more than one? Set How many invisible characters first. Ten standard characters make a gap about ten letters wide.
Not sure the copy worked? Paste it into Check what you copied. It lists every invisible character it finds, so you can see it is there before you use it.
Before an app saves a name or sends a message, it removes the spaces at the start and the end. A name made of spaces is then empty, and the app refuses it or does nothing.
The characters here are not spaces to the app. Hangul Filler is a letter from the Korean alphabet that has no shape, and Braille Pattern Blank is a Braille cell with no dots. The app sees a character and keeps it. You see a blank.
Ideographic Space and No-Break Space look the same, but most apps remove them like ordinary spaces. The table below says which is which.
Start with Standard, the Hangul Filler. It is accepted in the most places.
If an app refuses it, try Alternative, the Braille Pattern Blank, then Narrower. No width is a zero width space: it takes up no room at all, which is useful between words but often fails on its own as a name.
Want to get rid of invisible characters instead? The invisible character remover finds and deletes them. For blank lines in an Instagram caption or bio, use the Instagram line break generator.
WhatsApp will not send a message with nothing in it, and a space alone counts as nothing. Paste one invisible character instead:
If WhatsApp will not send it, pick Alternative and copy again. For a longer blank message, set How many invisible characters to 20 or 50 before you copy.
Every character here looks blank. The last column says whether an app that removes spaces will remove it too, which is why the last two are no good for a blank name.
| Character | Code | Width | Removed with spaces | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hangul Filler | U+3164 |
Letter-wide | No | |
| Braille Pattern Blank | U+2800 |
Letter-wide | No | |
| Halfwidth Hangul Filler | U+FFA0 |
Narrow | No | |
| Zero Width Space | U+200B |
None | No | |
| Zero Width Joiner | U+200D |
None | No | |
| Invisible Separator | U+2063 |
None | No | |
| Ideographic Space | U+3000 |
Wide | Yes | |
| No-Break Space | U+00A0 |
Normal space | Yes |
A character that takes up a place in the text but shows nothing. The two used for blank names and messages are Hangul Filler (U+3164), the Standard button here, and Braille Pattern Blank (U+2800), the Alternative. Apps treat them as letters or symbols, not as spaces, so they keep them where they would delete a space.
Press Copy, paste it into the message box and tap Send. WhatsApp will not send a message with only spaces in it, but an invisible character counts as text. If it will not send, pick Alternative and copy again.
Press Copy, paste it into the name field and save. If the app says the name is empty or not allowed, pick Alternative or Narrower and copy again. Some apps check names more strictly than messages and refuse any name without a visible letter.
Either the copy did not work, or the app removed the character. Paste what you copied into Check what you copied: if it says "Only spaces", you copied an ordinary space. If it lists Hangul Filler and the app still refuses it, that app strips it, so pick Alternative and try again.
Paste it into Check what you copied. It names every invisible character it finds and counts them, so you can see that it is there before you use it.
Not by looking. Someone who copies your name or message gets the character too, and a screen reader may read some of them out, Braille Pattern Blank in particular.
Apps remove the spaces at the start and end of a name or a message before they check whether it is empty. A name made of spaces is then empty. The same goes for No-Break Space and Ideographic Space, which look like the others but are removed like ordinary spaces.
Use the invisible character remover. It finds zero width spaces, joiners and other hidden characters, shows where they were, and deletes them.
No. The copying and the check both run in your browser, and nothing you paste leaves the page.