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U+206B
U+206B · ACTIVATE SYMMETRIC SWAPPING

Activate Symmetric Swapping

  • CodepointU+206B
  • NameACTIVATE SYMMETRIC SWAPPING
  • Decimal8299
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classBN — Boundary Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+206B is ACTIVATE SYMMETRIC SWAPPING, 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.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 81 AB3 bytes
UTF-16206B1 code unit
UTF-320000206B4 bytes
HTML decimal
HTML hex
CSS\206Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u206B
JSON\u206B
Python\u206B
Python\N{ACTIVATE SYMMETRIC SWAPPING}by name
Java / C#\u206B
C / C++\u206Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{206B}
Go\u206B
Ruby\u206B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8299)
URL-encoded%E2%81%ABpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2066LRILeft-To-Right Isolate U+2067RLIRight-To-Left Isolate U+2068FSIFirst Strong Isolate U+2069PDIPop Directional Isolate U+206AU+206AInhibit Symmetric Swapping U+206CU+206CInhibit Arabic Form Shaping U+206DU+206DActivate Arabic Form Shaping U+206EU+206ENational Digit Shapes U+206FU+206FNominal Digit Shapes