U+E01CE "󠇎" Variation Selector-223 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠇎

U+E01CE "󠇎" Variation Selector-223 is a high numbered variation selector in the Unicode standard, specifically part of the variation selector supplement block. Variation selectors are invisible formatting characters that alter the appearance of a preceding base character, typically for East Asian ideographs like those used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing, allowing a different glyph style or font variation to be selected. U+E01CE, as VS223, has no visible width or shape of its own; it exists solely to indicate a specific presentation form for the character it follows, though its exact rendering depends on the font and system support. In practical terms, this code point is rarely encountered in everyday text and is primarily used for specialized typographic or scholarly purposes requiring precise character display.

General Properties

Code Point U+E01CE
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-223
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS223 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠇎
HTML Hex Encoding 󠇎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x87 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDDCE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E01CE
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\uddce

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