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ZWNJ

The invisible wedge: it keeps two letters from joining where they shouldn't.

The exact opposite of the ZWJ: where two letters would join, the zero width non-joiner keeps them apart. In Persian it is everyday orthography — می‌خواهم carries a ZWNJ in the middle, with no space at all.

In languages with ligatures, it undoes the wrong ligature at the boundary of a compound word, inserting no width whatsoever. The entity is ‌.

Joined:     میخواهم       (the Persian letters connect wrongly)
With ZWNJ:  می‌خواهم   (the join is interrupted in the right place)
A widthless wedge between two letters.