U+E011A "󠄚" Variation Selector-43 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠄚
U+E011A "󠄚" Variation Selector-43 is a non printable formatting code in the Unicode standard, belonging to the Variation Selectors Supplement block, which is used to request a specific glyph variant for a preceding base character, primarily for CJK ideographs in East Asian typography. Unlike visible characters, this invisible selector does not represent a letter or symbol but instead combines with the character immediately before it to instruct the rendering system to display a particular stylistic or historical form. Its use is highly specialized, typically found in advanced text processing for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts where subtle visual differences between standard and alternative glyphs must be preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E011A |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-43 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS43 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠄚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠄚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E011A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd1a |