U+E012E "󠄮" Variation Selector-63 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠄮

U+E012E "󠄮" Variation Selector-63 is one of a series of special invisible characters in the Unicode standard, specifically designed to modify the appearance of a preceding base character by selecting a specific glyph variant from a font. Unlike regular characters that represent visible letters or symbols, this variation selector does not produce any visible glyph by itself and is instead applied immediately after another character to request a particular typographic style or presentation form. Variation Selector-63 is part of the Ideographic Variation Sequence mechanism, which is commonly used to differentiate between similar but historically or stylistically distinct characters in scripts like Chinese and Japanese, ensuring that the correct intended shape is displayed on compatible systems. Its primary function is therefore purely instructional for text rendering engines, making it an essential but invisible component for precise textual representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+E012E
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-63
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS63 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠄮
HTML Hex Encoding 󠄮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDD2E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E012E
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\udd2e

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