U+E010B "󠄋" Variation Selector-28 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠄋
U+E010B "󠄋" Variation Selector-28 is a special invisible formatting code used to modify the appearance of the preceding character in a sequence, providing a specific stylistic variant defined by a later version of the Unicode standard. Unlike standard letters or symbols, this character has no visible form of its own but instead functions as a signal to compliant software, such as fonts or text rendering engines, to display the previous character in an alternate, predetermined shape or glyph. This variation selector is part of a broader set of Unicode mechanisms that enable precise typographic control, particularly for complex scripts like Mongolian or emoji sequences where subtle visual differences are important.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E010B |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-28 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS28 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠄋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠄋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E010B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd0b |