U+E01B8 "󠆸" Variation Selector-201 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠆸
U+E01B8 "󠆸" Variation Selector-201 is a special invisible code point in Unicode’s Variation Selectors Supplement block, designed to modify the appearance of a preceding base character by requesting a specific glyph variant from a font, in this case designated as "VS201." It does not represent a visible symbol by itself but instead acts as a formatting instruction, typically used with CJK ideographs or other complex scripts to choose an alternate shape or style defined in standardized variation sequences. The purpose of variation selectors like VS201 is to support precise typographic control in digital text, ensuring that characters display correctly across different fonts and systems without changing the underlying text content.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E01B8 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-201 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS201 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠆸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠆸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDDB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E01B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\uddb8 |