U+E01BF "󠆿" Variation Selector-208 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠆿
U+E01BF "󠆿" Variation Selector-208 is a reserved code point in the Unicode standard, specifically designated as a variation selector, which means its purpose is not to represent a visible glyph on its own but to modify the appearance of a preceding base character, instructing software to display a specific variant form or glyph style from a font. It falls within the high private use surrogates or extension area and is primarily used in contexts like complex scripts or emoji sequences to signal subtle visual differences, though it does not produce a standalone symbol, hence its display as a placeholder or empty box in most systems lacking the relevant font support.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E01BF |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-208 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS208 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠆿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠆿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDDBF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E01BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\uddbf |