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RLE
U+202B · RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING

Right-To-Left Embedding

  • CodepointU+202B
  • NameRIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING
  • Decimal8235
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classRLE — Right-to-Left Embedding
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+202B is RIGHT-TO-LEFT 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: RLE.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 AB3 bytes
UTF-16202B1 code unit
UTF-320000202B4 bytes
HTML decimal‫
HTML hex‫
CSS\202Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u202B
JSON\u202B
Python\u202B
Python\N{RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING}by name
Java / C#\u202B
C / C++\u202Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{202B}
Go\u202B
Ruby\u202B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8235)
URL-encoded%E2%80%ABpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2025‥Two Dot Leader U+2026…Horizontal Ellipsis U+2027‧Hyphenation Point U+2028U+2028Line Separator U+2029U+2029Paragraph Separator U+202ALRELeft-To-Right 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 U+2031‱Per Ten Thousand Sign