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

Code Point U+E01E5
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-246
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS246 (abbreviation)

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

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