U+E010C "󠄌" Variation Selector-29 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠄌
U+E010C "󠄌" Variation Selector-29 is a specialized formatting code used to modify the appearance of a preceding base character by selecting a specific glyph variant from a font that supports standardized variation sequences. Unlike a typical letter or symbol, this character is invisible on its own and only takes effect when placed immediately after another character, such as a CJK ideograph or emoji, to request an alternative visual representation defined by the Unicode Standard. Its primary function is to enable precise typographic control in digital text, allowing users to choose between different stylistic or regional forms of a character without changing the underlying text meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E010C |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-29 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS29 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠄌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠄌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E010C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd0c |