U+E019B "󠆛" Variation Selector-172 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠆛

U+E019B "󠆛" Variation Selector-172 is a member of the Variation Selectors Supplement block, specifically designed to modify the appearance of a preceding base character by requesting a particular glyph variant from a font, though it currently has no officially assigned standardized variation sequence. Unlike more common variation selectors that control emoji styles or CJK character forms, this code point remains reserved for future use by the Unicode Consortium to provide fine-grained control over typographic presentation. It is a combining character, meaning it must follow another character in text and is not intended to be displayed on its own. As a result, it typically appears as an invisible control character or a space unless the font and text rendering system support the specific variation it requests.

General Properties

Code Point U+E019B
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-172
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS172 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠆛
HTML Hex Encoding 󠆛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDD9B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E019B
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\udd9b

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