U+E0109 "󠄉" Variation Selector-26 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠄉
U+E0109 "󠄉" Variation Selector-26 is a specialized invisible formatting code used in digital text to request a specific glyph variant for a preceding base character, typically for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs in standardized collections like the Adobe-Japan1 character set. It belongs to the "Variation Selectors Supplement" block (U+E0100 to U+EFEF) and directs a compliant rendering system to display a particular typographic alternate, such as a different stroke style or form, of the character it follows. It has no visible appearance or pronunciation on its own and serves solely to enable precise, consistent visual representation in complex text environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0109 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-26 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS26 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠄉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠄉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0109 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd09 |