U+E01CD "󠇍" Variation Selector-222 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠇍

U+E01CD "󠇍" Variation Selector-222 is a special invisible formatting code used to request a specific glyph variation for the preceding base character in a text. Part of the Unicode standard's extensive variation selector system, this particular selector is reserved for future standardization or for private use by font developers and applications to differentiate subtle stylistic variants of a character, such as adjusting its shape or design in highly specialized scripts or decorative fonts. When placed directly after a base character, it signals to a compatible rendering engine that an alternate graphic form, defined in a registered Variation Sequences database or a custom font, should be displayed instead of the default. However, because it is not yet assigned to any public standard sequence, most operating systems and browsers will simply ignore it or show a blank placeholder, meaning its practical effect depends entirely on font support and custom implementation.

General Properties

Code Point U+E01CD
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-222
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS222 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠇍
HTML Hex Encoding 󠇍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x87 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDDCD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E01CD
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\uddcd

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