U+E018B "󠆋" Variation Selector-156 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠆋

U+E018B "󠆋" Variation Selector-156 is a member of the special variation selector block, specifically designed to modify the appearance of a preceding base character by selecting a particular glyph variant, though it is one of the reserved selectors that does not have a standardized public assignment or widely recognized implementation in mainstream fonts or rendering engines. Unlike the standardized variation selectors used for emoji sequences or East Asian ideographs, this code point falls within a range set aside for future standardization or private use, meaning it typically appears as an invisible control character or a blank placeholder. As a result, its practical application is limited to experimental or specialized systems where custom glyph variations might be defined, and it generally has no visible effect in standard text environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+E018B
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-156
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS156 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠆋
HTML Hex Encoding 󠆋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDD8B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E018B
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\udd8b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Case Ignorable Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
Script Inherited
Script Extensions Inherited
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Default Ignorable Code Point Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend
Variation Selector Yes