U+E0181 "󠆁" Variation Selector-146 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠆁
U+E0181 "󠆁" Variation Selector-146 is a special formatting character in the Unicode standard that belongs to the Variation Selectors Supplement block, where it is designed to modify the appearance of a preceding base character without adding any visible glyph of its own. It is one of a series of variation selectors used to specify a particular glyph style or variant, such as for CJK ideographs or emoji sequences, allowing text rendering systems to display the correct shape depending on context. Since it is a combining character, it must always follow a base character to have any effect, and on its own it appears as an invisible control code.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0181 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-146 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS146 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠆁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠆁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD81 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0181 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd81 |