U+E0185 "󠆅" Variation Selector-150 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠆅
U+E0185 "󠆅" Variation Selector-150 is a special formatting code point within the Unicode standard, specifically designed to modify the appearance of a preceding base character by requesting an alternative glyph variant from a font. It belongs to the "Variation Selectors Supplement" block and is one of several invisible control characters used in contexts like CJK ideographs and emoji sequences to specify stylistic choices, such as color, shape, or stroke style. As a private-use variation selector, its actual effect depends entirely on the font and software implementation, meaning it does not display a visible symbol itself but rather instructs the rendering engine to apply a predefined variation to the preceding character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0185 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-150 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS150 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠆅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠆅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0185 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd85 |