U+E0142 "󠅂" Variation Selector-83 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E0142 "󠅂" Variation Selector-83 is a format character in the Unicode standard that belongs to the Variation Selectors Supplement block, used specifically to request a particular glyph variant for a preceding base character. Unlike visible symbols or letters, this invisible control character works in combination with ideographs or other standardized characters to choose an alternative presentation style, such as a different stroke order or shape for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) text. When applied, the variation selector does not produce its own graphic but instead acts as a typographic instruction, ensuring that the display system renders the base character according to a predefined registered variation sequence within Unicode’s Ideographic Variation Database.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
󠅂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
󠅂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF3 0xA0 0x85 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xDB40 0xDD42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000E0142 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\udb40\udd42 |
Unicode Properties