U+E013E "󠄾" Variation Selector-79 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠄾
U+E013E "󠄾" Variation Selector-79 is a special invisible control character in the Unicode standard, specifically one of a series of 256 variation selectors designed to modify the appearance of a preceding base character. It does not represent a visible glyph on its own, but instead instructs a compliant rendering system to display the previous character using a particular font or style variant when multiple standardized forms exist. This character is part of a broader mechanism used in Unicode to accommodate subtle typographic or symbolic distinctions, such as those found in emoji sequences or historic scripts, ensuring that text can convey specific visual nuances without changing the underlying textual content.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E013E |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-79 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS79 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠄾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠄾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x84 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E013E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd3e |