U+E0165 "󠅥" Variation Selector-118 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠅥
U+E0165 "󠅥" Variation Selector-118 is a reserved variation selector within the Unicode standard's Supplementary Private Use Area-B, specifically intended for controlling the visual presentation of a preceding base character by selecting an alternative glyph variant. Unlike standard visible characters, this code point is invisible on its own and functions as a format character, signaling to a compliant rendering system to apply a predefined stylistic or script‑specific shape to the preceding character, though its actual use is typically defined by private agreements rather than a universal standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0165 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-118 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS118 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠅥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠅥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x85 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD65 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0165 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd65 |