U+E0117 "󠄗" Variation Selector-40 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠄗
U+E0117 "󠄗" Variation Selector-40 is a code point in the Unicode standard's Variation Selectors block, specifically designed to be a non-printing, combining character that instructs a renderer to apply a specific predefined visual variant to the preceding base character. It is part of the Ideographic Variation Sequence mechanism, allowing for the selection of alternative glyph shapes for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs without changing the underlying text meaning. This character is invisible in plain text and serves solely as a formatting or font selection cue, helping to manage complex script displays across different digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0117 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-40 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS40 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠄗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠄗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0117 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd17 |