U+E011C "󠄜" Variation Selector-45 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠄜

U+E011C "󠄜" Variation Selector-45 is a specialized, invisible formatting character within the Unicode standard, belonging to a block of 256 variation selectors starting at U+E0100. Its primary function is to modify the appearance of a preceding base character, typically an emoji or a CJK ideograph, by instructing the rendering system to display a specific predefined visual variant for that character. In practice, this means that when placed immediately after a base character, it requests a particular alternative glyph style, such as a different color, shape, or level of detail, as standardized in the Unicode Variation Sequences database. This character itself produces no visible symbol or space on screen and is used exclusively for fine grained typographic control.

General Properties

Code Point U+E011C
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-45
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS45 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠄜
HTML Hex Encoding 󠄜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDD1C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E011C
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\udd1c

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