U+E018A "󠆊" Variation Selector-155 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠆊
U+E018A "󠆊" Variation Selector-155 is a specialized formatting code used in digital text to request a specific variant presentation for the preceding base character, particularly in certain CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) contexts. It belongs to a block of Variation Selectors that influence glyph selection in fonts supporting the Ideographic Variation Sequence (IVS) standard, allowing a character to be displayed with a different stroke style or shape without changing its underlying meaning. This invisible control character is not meant for direct display but acts as a subtle instruction to properly equipped software and fonts, ensuring precise typographic representation for historical or stylized glyphs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E018A |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-155 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS155 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠆊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠆊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E018A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd8a |