U+E0128 "󠄨" Variation Selector-57 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠄨
U+E0128 "󠄨" Variation Selector-57 is a specialized invisible code point in the Unicode standard, part of the Variation Selectors Supplement block, designed to specify a particular visual variant for the preceding base character to which it is attached. It does not represent a typographic symbol or letter by itself, but instead functions as a formatting instruction that requests a specific glyph style, such as a particular Japanese kanji form or an emoji presentation, from the font or rendering system. Its use is typically limited to advanced text processing contexts where precise character appearance is required, and it is seldom encountered in everyday writing because it has no visible standalone form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0128 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-57 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS57 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠄨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠄨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0128 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd28 |