U+E01A4 "󠆤" Variation Selector-181 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠆤
U+E01A4 "󠆤" Variation Selector-181 is a special invisible formatting character within the standard that serves as a subtle modifier for preceding ideographs or symbols, instructing a compatible font or rendering system to display a specific variant of a base character, such as an alternative stroke order or stylistic form. As part of the sequence of variation selectors in the Supplementary Special-purpose Plane, this code point does not represent a visible glyph on its own but instead silently alters the visual appearance of the character directly before it, ensuring precise typographic representation in contexts like ancient texts or specialized scripts where multiple forms of a single character exist.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E01A4 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-181 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS181 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠆤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠆤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDDA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E01A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udda4 |