U+E01B5 "󠆵" Variation Selector-198 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠆵

U+E01B5 "󠆵" Variation Selector-198 is a reserved code point within a special range of Unicode designed for invisible formatting and text rendering control, rather than for representing a visible symbol or letter. This character belongs to the set of variation selectors that are intended to be combined with a preceding base character, instructing a compliant font or rendering engine to display a specific glyph variant of that base character, particularly for ideological or technical purposes such as in East Asian or mathematical text. However, this particular variation selector, along with many others in its extended block, is currently defined as a "reserved" or "unassigned" code point, meaning its specific rendering behavior has not been officially standardized or implemented in common Unicode releases. As a result, when encountered in digital text, it typically functions as a hidden control character or may cause a rendering error, rather than producing any meaningful visual or typog

General Properties

Code Point U+E01B5
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-198
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS198 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠆵
HTML Hex Encoding 󠆵
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDDB5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E01B5
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\uddb5

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