U+E010E "󠄎" Variation Selector-31 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠄎

U+E010E "󠄎" Variation Selector-31 is a highly specialized and invisible formatting character from the Unicode standard's Variation Selectors Supplement block, designed to modify the appearance of a preceding base character by requesting a specific glyph variant from a font. Unlike regular letters or symbols, this character does not represent a sound, word, or image on its own, instead functioning as a control code that tells a compatible system to swap the default rendering of a prior ideograph or CJK character with a designated alternative style, such as a different stroke order or a standardized form for a specific writing system. It is part of a sequence of 240 variation selectors that extend the original set, allowing for precise typographic control in contexts like historical text reproduction or when a font offers multiple shapes for the same underlying character.

General Properties

Code Point U+E010E
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-31
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS31 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠄎
HTML Hex Encoding 󠄎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDD0E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E010E
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\udd0e

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