U+E018C "󠆌" Variation Selector-157 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠆌
U+E018C "󠆌" Variation Selector-157 is a highly specialized, invisible formatting character used within the Unicode standard to request a specific glyph variant for a preceding base character. It belongs to a large block of variation selectors that are strictly intended for standardized variation sequences, allowing a font to display an alternative form of a symbol such as an emoji or an ideograph, such as switching between color and monochrome representation. In practice, this particular selector has not been formally registered for use in any standard variation sequence as of the latest Unicode specifications, meaning it currently has no defined public effect and is reserved for future or private application.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E018C |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-157 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS157 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠆌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠆌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E018C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd8c |