U+E0152 "󠅒" Variation Selector-99 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠅒
U+E0152 "󠅒" Variation Selector-99 is a special invisible formatting character used in the Unicode standard to request a specific visual variant of a preceding base character, such as a CJK ideograph or emoji, if a font supports it. Unlike visible characters, this variation selector has no printed shape of its own and instead functions as a metadata tag, instructing rendering systems to apply a particular glyph style or presentation when the combination is properly defined in a registered variation sequence. It is part of a broader set of standardized variation selectors that enable fine grained control over typography and symbolic representation without altering the underlying text content.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0152 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-99 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS99 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠅒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠅒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x85 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD52 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0152 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd52 |