U+E0178 "󠅸" Variation Selector-137 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠅸
U+E0178 "󠅸" Variation Selector-137 is a special formatting character within the Unicode standard, specifically part of the Variation Selectors Supplement block. It is a nonspacing character that does not represent a visible glyph on its own, but is intended to modify the appearance of a preceding base character by selecting a specific glyph variant from the font being used. The numeric marker in its name, 137, refers to its classification in a sequence of variation selectors, which are employed to distinguish between different stylistic or contextual forms of the same character, such as in emoji or complex East Asian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0178 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-137 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS137 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠅸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠅸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x85 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0178 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd78 |