U+E018E "󠆎" Variation Selector-159 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠆎
U+E018E "󠆎" Variation Selector-159 is a standardized invisible control character within the Unicode standard, part of a block of variation selectors used to request a specific glyph variant for a preceding base character. Unlike typical visible symbols, this character by itself has no rendered appearance; its sole purpose is to be combined with immediately prior characters to indicate a preferred presentation, often for subtle stylistic choices in East Asian scripts or emoji sequences. It is one of several such selectors that enable precise typographic control, though its practical use is highly dependent on the font and software implementation supporting the defined variation sequences.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E018E |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-159 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS159 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠆎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠆎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E018E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd8e |