U+E0116 "󠄖" Variation Selector-39 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠄖
U+E0116 "󠄖" Variation Selector-39 is a special formatting code in the Unicode standard designed to modify the appearance of a preceding base character, specifically to request a particular glyph variant for that character. It belongs to the set of Variation Selectors used in ideographic text, particularly for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) characters, where it can select a specific stylistic or regional variant from a predefined collection known as an IVS (Ideographic Variation Sequence). This character itself is invisible when displayed, as it only affects the shape of the previous character, ensuring that the desired visual form is rendered without adding any visible symbol of its own.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0116 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-39 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS39 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠄖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠄖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0116 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd16 |