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LRI
U+2066 · LEFT-TO-RIGHT ISOLATE

Left-To-Right Isolate

  • CodepointU+2066
  • NameLEFT-TO-RIGHT ISOLATE
  • Decimal8294
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version6.3 (2013)
  • Bidi classLRI — Left-to-Right Isolate
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2066 is LEFT-TO-RIGHT ISOLATE, 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 6.3 (2013).

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: LRI.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 81 A63 bytes
UTF-1620661 code unit
UTF-32000020664 bytes
HTML decimal⁦
HTML hex⁦
CSS\2066in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2066
JSON\u2066
Python\u2066
Python\N{LEFT-TO-RIGHT ISOLATE}by name
Java / C#\u2066
C / C++\u2066universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2066}
Go\u2066
Ruby\u2066
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8294)
URL-encoded%E2%81%A6percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2060WJWord Joiner U+2061U+2061Function Application U+2062U+2062Invisible Times U+2063U+2063Invisible Separator U+2064U+2064Invisible Plus U+2067RLIRight-To-Left Isolate U+2068FSIFirst Strong Isolate U+2069PDIPop Directional Isolate U+206AU+206AInhibit Symmetric Swapping U+206BU+206BActivate Symmetric Swapping U+206CU+206CInhibit Arabic Form Shaping