U+E010A "󠄊" Variation Selector-27 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠄊

U+E010A "󠄊" Variation Selector-27 is a specialized invisible formatting code, part of a sequence of 16 variation selectors in the Supplementary Special-purpose Plane, designed to modify the appearance of a preceding standard character by triggering a specific glyph or stylistic variant. Unlike visible symbols, this character has no standalone meaning; instead, it functions as a digital instruction for text rendering systems, often used in conjunction with CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs to select a particular typographic form or cursive style defined in a font. Its practical purpose is to ensure precise visual representation in historic or technical documents, enabling the display of subtle distinctions in character shape that are not captured by the base Unicode codepoint alone.

General Properties

Code Point U+E010A
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-27
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS27 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠄊
HTML Hex Encoding 󠄊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDD0A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E010A
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\udd0a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Case Ignorable Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
Script Inherited
Script Extensions Inherited
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Default Ignorable Code Point Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend
Variation Selector Yes