U+E012B "󠄫" Variation Selector-60 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠄫

U+E012B "󠄫" Variation Selector-60 is a specialized invisible formatting character belonging to the Variation Selector Supplement block, designed to indicate a specific visual variant of a preceding base character when supported by a font. Unlike typical alphabetic or symbolic characters, this code point is not meant to be displayed on its own but instead functions as a control sequence that subtly alters the glyph shape of the character it follows, often for script-specific or stylistic customization. Because Variation Selector-60 is a private-use or reserved selector in certain Unicode releases, its exact effect depends entirely on the font and rendering system, meaning it may produce no visible change in most standard contexts. As a noninterchangeable, format character, it represents a tool for fine-grained typographic control rather than a symbol with independent meaning.

General Properties

Code Point U+E012B
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-60
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS60 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠄫
HTML Hex Encoding 󠄫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDD2B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E012B
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\udd2b

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