U+206B "" Activate Symmetric Swapping Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans 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.

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