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

Code Point U+E0198
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-169
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS169 (abbreviation)

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

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