U+E01EA "󠇪" Variation Selector-251 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

󠇪

U+E01EA "󠇪" Variation Selector-251 is a special invisible formatting code used in digital text to request a specific glyph variant for a preceding base character, as part of the Standardized Variation Sequences system. It belongs to a block of 256 variation selectors that allow a single Unicode character to have multiple visual presentations across different fonts or scripts, such as choosing between an emoji style and a text style for symbols like heart or smiley emoji. By following a base character, this selector signals to rendering software to display a defined alternate shape, like a more ornate or simplified version, but only if the font supports that sequence. In most contexts, however, it produces no visible symbol on its own and can appear as a placeholder box or be entirely ignored by unsupported systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+E01EA
Version Added 4.0
Name Variation Selector-251
Block Variation Selectors Supplement
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark
Alias VS251 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 󠇪
HTML Hex Encoding 󠇪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF3 0xA0 0x87 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xDB40 0xDDEA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000E01EA
C/C++/Java Escape \udb40\uddea

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