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LRM
U+200E · LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK

Left-To-Right Mark

  • CodepointU+200E
  • NameLEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
  • Decimal8206
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+200E is LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK, an invisible format character in the General Punctuation block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is invisible. It changes how surrounding text is processed or displayed but has no glyph of its own, which makes it easy to paste by accident.

It is a default-ignorable codepoint: when a font or renderer does not support it, it should be displayed as nothing at all rather than as a missing-glyph box.

Common abbreviation: LRM.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 8E3 bytes
UTF-16200E1 code unit
UTF-320000200E4 bytes
HTML named‎named character reference
HTML decimal‎
HTML hex‎
CSS\200Ein content: "…"
JavaScript\u200E
JSON\u200E
Python\u200E
Python\N{LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK}by name
Java / C#\u200E
C / C++\u200Euniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{200E}
Go\u200E
Ruby\u200E
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8206)
URL-encoded%E2%80%8Epercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2008U+2008Punctuation Space U+2009U+2009Thin Space U+200AU+200AHair Space U+200BZWSPZero Width Space U+200CZWNJZero Width Non-Joiner U+200DZWJZero Width Joiner U+200FRLMRight-To-Left Mark U+2010‐Hyphen U+2011‑Non-Breaking Hyphen U+2012‒Figure Dash U+2013–En Dash U+2014—Em Dash