U+E01B0 "󠆰" Variation Selector-193 Unicode Character

U+E01B0 "󠆰" Variation Selector-193 is a specialized invisible formatting mark belonging to the Standardized Variation Sequences block, designed to modify the appearance of a preceding base character when proper font support is present. Unlike regular characters that convey semantic meaning or represent visible glyphs, this variation selector instructs rendering software to display the previous character in a specific alternative style, often chosen to maintain visual consistency across platforms or to honor typographic conventions for certain scripts. Its practical use is highly dependent on applications, fonts, and systems that recognize the particular variation sequence it belongs to, and without such support, it typically appears as nothing or as a placeholder glyph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+E01B0
Version Added	4.0
Name	Variation Selector-193
Block	Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category	Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Nonspacing Mark
Alias	VS193 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	󠆰
HTML Hex Encoding	󠆰
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xDB40 0xDDB0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000E01B0
C/C++/Java Escape	\udb40\uddb0

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