Right-to-left Embedding

U+202B

Right-to-left Embedding is the Unicode character ‫ at codepoint U+202B in the General Punctuation block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Right-to-left Embedding

To use the Right-to-left Embedding symbol (‫) in HTML, insert the entity ‫ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ‫ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\202B';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u202B' evaluates to ‫. In Python source, write '\u202B'.

The character encodes to E2 80 AB as UTF-8 bytes and 202B as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8235.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026