Unicode Character "" (U+206B)

The character  (Activate Symmetric Swapping) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+206B. 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 Activate Symmetric Swapping
Unicode Codepoint U+206B
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block General Punctuation
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Boundary Neutral (BN)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Format
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+206B Conversion

HTML (decimal) 
HTML (hex) 
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%81%AB
CSS \00206B
JavaScript, JSON \u206B
C, C++, Java \u206B
Python \u206B
Rust \u{206B}
Ruby \u206B

How to type ""

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 0 6 B. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 0 6 B. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x81 0xAB
UTF-16 (hex) 0x206B
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000206B

References