U+E0110 "󠄐" Variation Selector-33 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠄐

U+E0110 "󠄐" Variation Selector-33 is a special invisible formatting character, part of a sequence of 256 variation selectors in the Unicode standard, specifically from the subset of Ideographic Variation Selectors Supplementary range. It is designed to be combined with a preceding Chinese, Japanese, or Korean ideograph to specify a particular glyph variant or display style for that base character, such as a historical, simplified, or typographic alternate form. Unlike regular visible characters, the variation selector itself has no printed or graphical presence and functions solely as a metadata marker within digital text to guide font rendering systems in selecting the correct visual representation. This mechanism allows for precise control over how complex CJK characters are displayed across different platforms and fonts without altering the underlying text's identity or meaning.

General Properties

Code Point U+E0110
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-33
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS33 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠄐
HTML Hex Encoding 󠄐
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDD10
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E0110
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\udd10

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