U+E0124 "󠄤" Variation Selector-53 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠄤

U+E0124 "󠄤" Variation Selector-53 is a special invisible formatting code used in digital text to request a specific glyph variant for a preceding base character, primarily within the Unicode Standard's variation sequences for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs. As part of the standardized variation selector block, this particular selector does not display any visible symbol by itself but instead tells rendering software to choose an alternative shape, such as a traditional, simplified, or region specific form, for the previous character when such a defined sequence exists in the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database. Its practical use is rare outside specialized typographic or scholarly contexts, where precise control over character appearance is needed, and it typically appears as a blank space or is ignored by applications that do not support these sequences.

General Properties

Code Point U+E0124
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-53
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS53 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠄤
HTML Hex Encoding 󠄤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDD24
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E0124
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\udd24

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