U+E012A "󠄪" Variation Selector-59 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠄪
U+E012A "󠄪" Variation Selector-59 is a dedicated formatting code point within the Unicode standard, specifically belonging to the Variation Selector Supplement block. As one of a series of invisible control characters, its sole function is to modify the appearance of the preceding base character by signaling a specific preferred glyph variant from a set of predefined alternatives, in this case referenced by the sixty third variation selection sequence. It is not meant to be displayed as an independent glyph in normal text, but rather works in the background to ensure proper typographic rendering, often used for special historical scripts or technical notation where distinct visual forms of the same abstract character need to be preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E012A |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-59 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS59 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠄪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠄪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E012A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd2a |