U+E01DB "󠇛" Variation Selector-236 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠇛

U+E01DB "󠇛" Variation Selector-236 is a specialized formatting character used in digital text to request a specific visual variant of a preceding base character, primarily within the Unicode Standard's variation selection system. Belonging to the "Variation Selectors Supplement" block, it is one of 240 such selectors that allow for subtle adjustments in glyph appearance, such as distinguishing between common and traditional forms of CJK characters or specifying preferred symbol styles for emoji sequences. This particular selector, like others in its range, has no visible glyph of its own but instead modifies the rendering of the character that immediately precedes it, enabling context sensitive typographic flexibility without altering the fundamental semantic identity of the text.

General Properties

Code Point U+E01DB
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-236
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS236 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠇛
HTML Hex Encoding 󠇛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x87 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDDDB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E01DB
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\udddb

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