U+E0102 "󠄂" Variation Selector-19 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠄂
U+E0102 "󠄂" Variation Selector-19 is a formatting character in the Unicode standard, part of a set of 16 invisible variation selectors that modify the appearance of a preceding base character. It does not represent a visible glyph itself but instead signals to a compliant system to display the preceding character in a specific alternative style, often used for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs to select a particular font variation or standardized variant, such as a traditional versus simplified form, based on the Unicode Variation Sequences specification. This selector, like others in its range (U+E0100-U+E010F), is invisible in typical text rendering but critical for precise typographic control in specialized contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0102 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-19 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS19 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠄂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠄂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0102 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd02 |