diff --git a/src/WABinary/encode.ts b/src/WABinary/encode.ts
index 57fda9b58e7..cce2e278817 100644
--- a/src/WABinary/encode.ts
+++ b/src/WABinary/encode.ts
@@ -189,8 +189,6 @@ const encodeBinaryNodeInner = (
 			pushByte(tokenIndex.index)
 		} else if(isNibble(str)) {
 			writePackedBytes(str, 'nibble')
-		} else if(isHex(str)) {
-			writePackedBytes(str, 'hex')
 		} else if(str) {
 			const decodedJid = jidDecode(str)
 			if(decodedJid) {
@@ -198,6 +196,8 @@ const encodeBinaryNodeInner = (
 			} else {
 				writeStringRaw(str)
 			}
+		} else if(isHex(str)) {
+			writePackedBytes(str, 'hex')
 		}
 	}