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

Code Point U+E01B6
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-199
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS199 (abbreviation)

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

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