U+E0121 "󠄡" Variation Selector-50 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠄡
U+E0121 "󠄡" Variation Selector-50 is a special invisible code point in the Unicode standard that does not represent a visible glyph itself but instead modifies the appearance of a preceding base character by selecting a specific variation sequence, particularly for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) characters to specify a particular font or style variant from the Ideographic Variation Database. This selector, like other variation selectors in the range U+E0100 to U+E01EF, is used in text to ensure consistent rendering of complex characters across different platforms and fonts, making it an essential tool for preserving intended visual semantics in digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0121 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-50 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS50 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠄡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠄡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0121 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd21 |