Unicode Character "‫" (U+202B)

The character ‫ (Right-To-Left Embedding) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+202B. 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 Right-To-Left Embedding
Unicode Codepoint U+202B
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block General Punctuation
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

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

Other Unicode Data

Category Format
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+202B Conversion

HTML (decimal) ‫
HTML (hex) ‫
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%80%AB
CSS \00202B
JavaScript, JSON \u202B
C, C++, Java \u202B
Python \u202B
Rust \u{202B}
Ruby \u202B

How to type "‫"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0xAB
UTF-16 (hex) 0x202B
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000202B

References