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U+206C
U+206C · INHIBIT ARABIC FORM SHAPING

Inhibit Arabic Form Shaping

  • CodepointU+206C
  • NameINHIBIT ARABIC FORM SHAPING
  • Decimal8300
  • 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+206C is INHIBIT ARABIC FORM SHAPING, 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 AC3 bytes
UTF-16206C1 code unit
UTF-320000206C4 bytes
HTML decimal
HTML hex
CSS\206Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u206C
JSON\u206C
Python\u206C
Python\N{INHIBIT ARABIC FORM SHAPING}by name
Java / C#\u206C
C / C++\u206Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{206C}
Go\u206C
Ruby\u206C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8300)
URL-encoded%E2%81%ACpercent-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+206BU+206BActivate Symmetric Swapping U+206DU+206DActivate Arabic Form Shaping U+206EU+206ENational Digit Shapes U+206FU+206FNominal Digit Shapes