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RLM
U+200F · RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK

Right-To-Left Mark

  • CodepointU+200F
  • NameRIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
  • Decimal8207
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classR — Right-to-Left
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+200F is RIGHT-TO-LEFT 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 a strong right-to-left character (bidirectional class R), so it sets the direction of the text around it. See bidirectional text.

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: RLM.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 8F3 bytes
UTF-16200F1 code unit
UTF-320000200F4 bytes
HTML named‏named character reference
HTML decimal‏
HTML hex‏
CSS\200Fin content: "…"
JavaScript\u200F
JSON\u200F
Python\u200F
Python\N{RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK}by name
Java / C#\u200F
C / C++\u200Funiversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{200F}
Go\u200F
Ruby\u200F
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8207)
URL-encoded%E2%80%8Fpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

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U+2009U+2009Thin Space U+200AU+200AHair Space U+200BZWSPZero Width Space U+200CZWNJZero Width Non-Joiner U+200DZWJZero Width Joiner U+200ELRMLeft-To-Right Mark U+2010‐Hyphen U+2011‑Non-Breaking Hyphen U+2012‒Figure Dash U+2013–En Dash U+2014—Em Dash U+2015―Horizontal Bar