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FORMAT
U+206E FORMAT

NATIONAL DIGIT SHAPES

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

Quick Facts

Unicode Name NATIONAL DIGIT SHAPES
Code Point U+206E
Decimal Value 8302
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 AE
UTF-16 Code Unit 206E
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000206E
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 6E LE: 6E 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 6E LE: 6E 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal 
HTML Hexadecimal 
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00206E
JavaScript (ES6) \u206E
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u206E
JSON Escape \u206E
Python \u206E
PHP "\u{206E}"
Java "\u206E"
C / C++ "\u206E"
Rust '\u{206e}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%81%AE

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+206E 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 NATIONAL DIGIT SHAPES

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

Identifier U+206E

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