This is the Unicode character LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK, code point U+200E (decimal 8206) in the General Punctuation block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ‎, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E2 80 8E.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+200E |
| Decimal | 8206 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 80 8E |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 200E |
| UTF-32 | 0000200E |
| HTML decimal | ‎ |
| HTML hex | ‎ |
| HTML named | ‎ |
| CSS | \200E |
| JavaScript | \u200E |
| JSON | \u200E |
| Python | \u200E |
| Python by name | \N{LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK} |
| Java, C# | \u200E |
| Rust, Swift | \u{200E} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u200E |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E2%80%8E |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK |
| Also known as | LRM |
| Code point | U+200E (decimal 8206) |
| Block | General Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F) |
| General category | Cf: Format character |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in General Punctuation
- U+2006 Six-Per-Em Space
- U+2007 Figure Space
- U+2008 Punctuation Space
- U+2009 Thin Space
- U+200A Hair Space
- U+200B Zero Width Space
- U+200C Zero Width Non-Joiner
- U+200D Zero Width Joiner
- U+200F Right-To-Left Mark
- ‐ U+2010 Hyphen
- ‑ U+2011 Non-Breaking Hyphen
- ‒ U+2012 Figure Dash
- – U+2013 En Dash
- — U+2014 Em Dash
- ― U+2015 Horizontal Bar
- ‖ U+2016 Double Vertical Line
All 111 characters: General Punctuation.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK?
- Use the named entity ‎, or ‎ (decimal) or ‎ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+200E?
- E2 80 8E (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E2%80%8E.
- How do I write U+200E in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u200E. Python: \u200E.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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