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U+202C · POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING

Pop Directional Formatting

  • CodepointU+202C
  • NamePOP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
  • Decimal8236
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classPDF — Pop Directional Format
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+202C is POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING, 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: PDF.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 AC3 bytes
UTF-16202C1 code unit
UTF-320000202C4 bytes
HTML decimal‬
HTML hex‬
CSS\202Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u202C
JSON\u202C
Python\u202C
Python\N{POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING}by name
Java / C#\u202C
C / C++\u202Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{202C}
Go\u202C
Ruby\u202C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8236)
URL-encoded%E2%80%ACpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2026…Horizontal Ellipsis U+2027‧Hyphenation Point U+2028U+2028Line Separator U+2029U+2029Paragraph Separator U+202ALRELeft-To-Right Embedding U+202BRLERight-To-Left Embedding 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 U+2032′Prime