U+E0196 "󠆖" Variation Selector-167 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠆖
U+E0196 "󠆖" Variation Selector-167 is a special invisible formatting code used in digital text to request a specific visual variant of the preceding character, particularly for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs covered by the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database. It does not represent a visible symbol or letter itself but instead acts as a control character, telling software or fonts to display the previous character in a different glyph style, such as an alternative stroke sequence or a more traditional printed form. This selector belongs to a range of variation selectors intentionally placed in a noncharacter area of the Unicode Standard to ensure they remain separate from standard text content.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E0196 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-167 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS167 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠆖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠆖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDD96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E0196 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udd96 |