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U+206D
U+206D · ACTIVATE ARABIC FORM SHAPING

Activate Arabic Form Shaping

  • CodepointU+206D
  • NameACTIVATE ARABIC FORM SHAPING
  • Decimal8301
  • 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+206D is ACTIVATE 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 AD3 bytes
UTF-16206D1 code unit
UTF-320000206D4 bytes
HTML decimal
HTML hex
CSS\206Din content: "…"
JavaScript\u206D
JSON\u206D
Python\u206D
Python\N{ACTIVATE ARABIC FORM SHAPING}by name
Java / C#\u206D
C / C++\u206Duniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{206D}
Go\u206D
Ruby\u206D
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8301)
URL-encoded%E2%81%ADpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
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 U+206EU+206ENational Digit Shapes U+206FU+206FNominal Digit Shapes