U+206D "" Activate Arabic Form Shaping Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+206D "" Activate Arabic Form Shaping is an invisible, or "default ignorable," control character defined in the Unicode Standard. Its intended function is to signal to a text rendering engine that it should apply the rules of Arabic script shaping to the surrounding text, ensuring that Arabic letters take their correct initial, medial, final, or isolated forms depending on their position in a word. This character is part of a set of bidirectional and shaping controls designed for complex text layout, though it is rarely implemented or supported in modern software, and much of its usage has been deprecated or replaced by better-defined mechanisms within the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
General Properties
Code Point
U+206D
Name
Activate Arabic Form Shaping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding

HTML Hex Encoding

UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x81 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding
0x206D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000206D
C/C++/Java Escape
\u206d
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common