U+E01E5 "󠇥" Variation Selector-246 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E01E5 "󠇥" Variation Selector-246 is a special invisible codepoint in the "Variation Selectors Supplement" block, designed to modify the appearance of a preceding base character by indicating a specific standardized variant form, often related to typographic or ideographic presentation. Unlike printable characters, it has no independent visual shape; instead, its presence tells a rendering system to display the previous character—such as a Chinese character or an emoji—in a predefined alternative way, as registered in the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database or other variation sequences. This particular selector, numbered 246, is one of many such controls that enable precise and consistent text rendering across different platforms and fonts.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
󠇥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
󠇥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF3 0xA0 0x87 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xDB40 0xDDE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000E01E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\udb40\udde5 |
Unicode Properties