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FORMAT
U+206A FORMAT

INHIBIT SYMMETRIC SWAPPING

Zero-width format control character governing layout and script joining.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name INHIBIT SYMMETRIC SWAPPING
Code Point U+206A
Decimal Value 8298
General Category Format (Cf) →
Unicode Block General Punctuation →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 81 AA
UTF-16 Code Unit 206A
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000206A
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 6A LE: 6A 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 6A LE: 6A 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal 
HTML Hexadecimal 
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00206A
JavaScript (ES6) \u206A
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u206A
JSON Escape \u206A
Python \u206A
PHP "\u{206A}"
Java "\u206A"
C / C++ "\u206A"
Rust '\u{206a}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%81%AA

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class BNBoundary Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Non-Printable Character Notice

Code point U+206A represents a FORMAT (General Category Cf). It does not produce a visible standalone glyph in standard font engines and is intended for programmatic, syntactic, layout, or lexical operations.

Names & Aliases

Official Name INHIBIT SYMMETRIC SWAPPING

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+206A

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