U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK

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Decimal / Nº
8206
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+200E, officially named LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Format, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8206 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 80 8E Copied!
UTF-16 20 0E Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 20 0E Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%80%8E Copied!
HTML hex reference ‎ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'200E' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u200E Copied!
C and C++ \u200e Copied!
C# \u200e Copied!
CSS \00200E Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8206) Copied!
Go \u200e Copied!
JavaScript \u200E Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{200e} Copied!
JSON \u200E Copied!
Java \u200E Copied!
Lua \u{200E} Copied!
Matlab char(8206) Copied!
Perl \x{200E} Copied!
PHP \u{200e} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\200E' Copied!
PowerShell `u{200E} Copied!
Python \u200e Copied!
Ruby \u{200e} Copied!
Rust \u{200e} Copied!