U+E01BD "󠆽" Variation Selector-206 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠆽

U+E01BD "󠆽" Variation Selector-206 is a special formatting code point within the Unicode standard's Variation Selectors Supplement block, designed not to be displayed as a visible symbol on its own but to modify the appearance of the preceding character. Specifically, this selector belongs to a set of standardized variation sequences that allow a font or system to choose between different glyph variants for the same base character, often used in East Asian typography or specialized scripts like Mongolian and Sanskrit. When placed after a base character, Variation Selector-206 requests a particular visual style, such as a specific cursive form or a different stroke weighting, enhancing textual precision in historical or complex writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+E01BD
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-206
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS206 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠆽
HTML Hex Encoding 󠆽
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDDBD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E01BD
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\uddbd

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