U+E0198 "󠆘" Variation Selector-169 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E0198 "󠆘" Variation Selector-169 is a special purpose invisible control character in the Unicode standard, belonging to the set of variation selectors used to request a specific glyph variant for the preceding base character. Unlike visible letters or symbols, this code point does not display a graphic of its own but instead signals to compliant fonts and rendering systems to apply a particular stylistic or presentation form of a prior character, such as a different typeface, color, or orientation. It operates within Unicode’s Ideographic Variation Sequence framework, primarily intended for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs where alternate shapes are historically or typographically significant. Because it is a reserved private-use variation selector, its actual effect on character rendering depends entirely on font support and implementations that follow a specific registered variation sequence, meaning without such support it is typically invisible or ignored.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
󠆘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
󠆘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xDB40 0xDD98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000E0198 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\udb40\udd98 |
Unicode Properties