U+E01C6 "󠇆" Variation Selector-215 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠇆
U+E01C6 "󠇆" Variation Selector-215 is a special formatting code used in digital text to request a specific glyph variation for the preceding character, typically within a standardized Unicode variation sequence. It belongs to a range of variation selectors that instruct a font or rendering engine to display an alternative design, such as a different style, serif, or weight, rather than the default form. This character itself is not a visible letter or symbol but an invisible control character that modifies the appearance of another character, enabling precise typographic control in environments like emoji presentation or complex script rendering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E01C6 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-215 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS215 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠇆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠇆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x87 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDDC6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E01C6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\uddc6 |