U+E01AC "󠆬" Variation Selector-189 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠆬
U+E01AC "󠆬" Variation Selector-189 is a reserved codepoint in the Unicode Standard's Supplementary Special-purpose Plane, specifically within the block of Variation Selectors. Unlike standard characters that represent letters, numbers, or symbols, this invisible control character is intended for use in combination with a preceding base character to request a specific glyph variant or presentation form, but as of the current Unicode version, its usage remains unassigned and undefined. It is therefore a placeholder for a future specification, meaning it currently has no standardized effect on text rendering and serves no functional purpose in any major writing system or protocol.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E01AC |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-189 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS189 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠆬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠆬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDDAC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E01AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\uddac |