U+E01B3 "󠆳" Variation Selector-196 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E01B3 "󠆳" Variation Selector-196 is a reserved code point within the Unicode standard that functions as a formatting control character, intended for use as one of a series of variation selectors that modify the appearance of a preceding base character. Specifically, it belongs to the set of "Variation Selectors Supplement" blocks, which provide a mechanism for requesting alternative glyph shapes or stylistic variants for certain CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs, emoji, or other symbols that have standardized variation sequences defined in the Unicode specification. This character itself displays as an invisible control character when typed or rendered, but it signals to a compliant font or rendering engine to select a particular visual representation of the character that immediately precedes it in text, thus enabling precise typographic choices without changing the underlying text content.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
󠆳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
󠆳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xDB40 0xDDB3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000E01B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\udb40\uddb3 |
Unicode Properties