U+E011B "󠄛" Variation Selector-44 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E011B "󠄛" Variation Selector-44 is an invisible formatting code used in digital text to request a specific glyph variant for the preceding base character, primarily for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs in standardized collections like the Ideographic Variation Database. It belongs to a block of 256 variation selectors, from U+E0100 to U+E01EF, which are designed to allow precise control over the visual appearance of characters without changing their underlying meaning. When a renderer supports variation sequences, this selector instructs it to display a registered alternative form of the previous character, such as a different stroke shape or radical style. Because it is a zero width non joiner and carries no visible image on its own, it functions purely as metadata within a text stream, often used to preserve historical or regional typographic distinctions in digital documents.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
󠄛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
󠄛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xDB40 0xDD1B |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000E011B |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\udb40\udd1b |
Unicode Properties