U+E0131 "󠄱" Variation Selector-66 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠄱

U+E0131 "󠄱" Variation Selector-66 is a special invisible formatting code used in digital text to request a specific visual variant for a preceding base character, particularly within the Unicode Standard's mechanism for encoding complex scripts and emoji sequences. It belongs to a block of 256 variation selectors, and when placed after a character like an ideograph or emoji, it instructs a compliant font or rendering system to display a designated alternative glyph shape or style, such as a different stroke form or orientation. While many variation selectors are standardized for purposes like distinguishing text versus emoji presentation, VS66 is specifically reserved for "standardized variation sequences" defined by the Unicode Consortium, though as of current standards it does not have a publicly assigned default variation and remains essentially a placeholder in the encoding architecture. Because it has no visible appearance on its own, its function is entirely dependent on the unde

General Properties

Code Point U+E0131
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-66
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS66 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠄱
HTML Hex Encoding 󠄱
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDD31
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E0131
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\udd31

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