U+E01BB "󠆻" Variation Selector-204 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠆻
U+E01BB "󠆻" Variation Selector-204 is a special invisible control character designed to request a specific visual variant for the preceding base character, rather than representing a letter or symbol itself. It belongs to a large block of standardized variation selectors that allow text rendering systems to choose between alternative glyphic forms, such as different stylistic or historic shapes for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs. When attached to a base character, this variation selector signals to compatible fonts and software to display an alternate glyph defined in a registered sequence, ensuring consistency in how certain complex or culturally specific characters appear across different platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E01BB |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-204 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS204 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠆻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠆻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDDBB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E01BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\uddbb |