U+202D LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE

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Decimal / Nº
8237
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Unknown
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+202D, officially named LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE, 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 Unknown character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8237 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 80 AD Copied!
UTF-16 20 2D Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 20 2D Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%80%AD Copied!
HTML hex reference ‭ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'202D' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u202D Copied!
C and C++ \u202d Copied!
C# \u202d Copied!
CSS \00202D Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8237) Copied!
Go \u202d Copied!
JavaScript \u202D Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{202d} Copied!
JSON \u202D Copied!
Java \u202D Copied!
Lua \u{202D} Copied!
Matlab char(8237) Copied!
Perl \x{202D} Copied!
PHP \u{202d} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\202D' Copied!
PowerShell `u{202D} Copied!
Python \u202d Copied!
Ruby \u{202d} Copied!
Rust \u{202d} Copied!