U+E0159 "󠅙" Variation Selector-106 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠅙

U+E0159 "󠅙" Variation Selector-106 is a special invisible control character in the Unicode standard, used specifically within the variation sequences framework to request a particular glyph variant for the preceding base character. Unlike standard printable characters, this code point has no visible form on its own and is not intended for direct display; it instead acts as a formatting instruction for rendering engines to select an alternative presentation, often for CJK ideographs or emoji sequences. It operates within the Unicode variation selector range, where it provides a mechanism for fine tuning the appearance of text without changing its semantic meaning, though in practice its actual usage is rare and highly dependent on font support and application implementation.

General Properties

Code Point U+E0159
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-106
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS106 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠅙
HTML Hex Encoding 󠅙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x85 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDD59
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E0159
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\udd59

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