U+E01E8 "󠇨" Variation Selector-249 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠇨

U+E01E8 "󠇨" Variation Selector-249 is a special purpose invisible formatting character within the Unicode standard’s variation selector supplement block, designed to modify the appearance of a preceding base character, such as an emoji, by selecting a specific glyph variant defined for that sequence. This selector, like others in the Variation Selectors range, does not display a visible symbol on its own but instead signals to compliant software to render the prior character in a standardized alternative form, often to preserve stylistic consistency or add semantic nuance across different platforms and fonts. When appended to a base character, it functions as a non printable control code that helps ensure coherent visual representation in text environments where multiple renderings of the same character exist.

General Properties

Code Point U+E01E8
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-249
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS249 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠇨
HTML Hex Encoding 󠇨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x87 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDDE8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E01E8
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\udde8

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