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LRE
U+202A · LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING

Left-To-Right Embedding

  • CodepointU+202A
  • NameLEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING
  • Decimal8234
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classLRE — Left-to-Right Embedding
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+202A is LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING, 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: LRE.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 AA3 bytes
UTF-16202A1 code unit
UTF-320000202A4 bytes
HTML decimal‪
HTML hex‪
CSS\202Ain content: "…"
JavaScript\u202A
JSON\u202A
Python\u202A
Python\N{LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING}by name
Java / C#\u202A
C / C++\u202Auniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{202A}
Go\u202A
Ruby\u202A
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8234)
URL-encoded%E2%80%AApercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2024․One Dot Leader U+2025‥Two Dot Leader U+2026…Horizontal Ellipsis U+2027‧Hyphenation Point U+2028U+2028Line Separator U+2029U+2029Paragraph Separator U+202BRLERight-To-Left Embedding U+202CPDFPop Directional Formatting U+202DLROLeft-To-Right Override U+202ERLORight-To-Left Override U+202FNNBSPNarrow No-Break Space U+2030‰Per Mille Sign