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
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