| Subject | English | Zulu |
| comp., MS | character spacing | isikhala phakathi kwezinhlamvusimo (The distance between characters in a line of text. Tracking, kerning, and scaling can be used to adjust the space between characters) |
| comp., MS | non-spacing character | utho olungashiyi sikhala (A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it) |
| comp., MS | spacing character | utho lwesikhala (A character with a non-zero width) |