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

Code Point U+E011B
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-44
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS44 (abbreviation)

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

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