U+E0186 "󠆆" Variation Selector-151 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠆆
U+E0186 "󠆆" Variation Selector-151 is a special formatting character in the Unicode standard, specifically part of the Variation Selectors Supplement block, which is used to request a specific glyph variant for a preceding base character. Unlike printable characters, it is a non-spacing modifier that instructs a compatible font or rendering system to display a subtly different shape or style of the character it follows, typically for East Asian ideographs or emoji sequences. When applied, it does not produce a visible symbol of its own, but instead alters the appearance of the preceding character to conform to a predefined alternate representation, offering precise typographic control in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0186 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-151 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS151 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠆆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠆆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD86 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0186 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd86 |