U+206B "" Activate Symmetric Swapping Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+206B "" Activate Symmetric Swapping is a rarely used format control character designed for bidirectional text rendering, specifically intended to alter the display order of characters by swapping paired symmetrical elements, such as parentheses or brackets, around a central point in the text. Part of the deprecated ISO 10646 "activate symmetric swapping" function, it was meant to assist in arranging bidirectional scripts where mirrored glyphs appear in the wrong orientation, but in practice its implementation is inconsistent across modern systems and software, and it is generally considered a legacy feature that seldom affects actual text output.
General Properties
Code Point
U+206B
Name
Activate Symmetric Swapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding

HTML Hex Encoding

UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x81 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x206B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000206B
C/C++/Java Escape
\u206b
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common