U+E01AE "󠆮" Variation Selector-191 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠆮
U+E01AE "󠆮" Variation Selector-191 is a specialized control character in the Unicode standard, part of a sequence of 256 variation selectors used to request a specific glyph variant for a preceding base character, though it is not commonly implemented in modern fonts. Unlike standard variation selectors that are visible as combining marks, this code point resides in a private use area or a supplementary range, meaning its visual representation is not standardized and typically appears as an empty or invisible placeholder in text. Its primary purpose is to allow fine-grained control over character rendering in specialized systems, such as historical or technical scripts, but it has no inherent semantic meaning outside of that context.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E01AE |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-191 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS191 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠆮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠆮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDDAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E01AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\uddae |