Unicode Character "‪" (U+202A)

The character ‪ (Left-To-Right Embedding) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+202A. It is encoded in the General Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ‪.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Left-To-Right Embedding
Unicode Codepoint U+202A
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block General Punctuation
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right Embedding (LRE)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Format
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+202A Conversion

HTML (decimal) ‪
HTML (hex) ‪
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%80%AA
CSS \00202A
JavaScript, JSON \u202A
C, C++, Java \u202A
Python \u202A
Rust \u{202A}
Ruby \u202A

How to type "‪"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 0 2 A. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 0 2 A. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ‪
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ‪
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ‪
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0xAA
UTF-16 (hex) 0x202A
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000202A

References