U+206A "" Inhibit Symmetric Swapping Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+206A "" Inhibit Symmetric Swapping is an invisible control character from the General Punctuation block, designed for use in bidirectional text to prevent the automatic swapping of paired characters, such as parentheses or brackets, between left to right and right to left contexts. It was intended to allow document authors to maintain the original visual order of these symbols in complex mixed direction layouts, but it was deprecated in later versions of the Unicode Standard and its use is discouraged because modern bidirectional algorithms and other explicit formatting characters provide more effective means for handling such text direction issues.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding

HTML Hex Encoding

UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x81 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding
0x206A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000206A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u206a