U+E01B6 "󠆶" Variation Selector-199 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E01B6 "󠆶" Variation Selector-199 is a specialized formatting character within the Unicode standard designed to modify the appearance of a preceding base character by selecting a specific glyph variant defined for that character. As a variation selector, it is invisible and does not produce a visible mark on its own, instead acting as a control code that tells a compliant rendering system to display the preceding character in a particular stylistic alternative, often used in East Asian text or other complex scripts to choose between subtle differences in design. Without a base character preceding it, this variation selector will typically appear as an empty placeholder or be ignored by text rendering engines, as it only functions in context.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
󠆶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
󠆶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xDB40 0xDDB6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000E01B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\udb40\uddb6 |
Unicode Properties