U+E01EF "󠇯" Variation Selector-256 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
󠇯
U+E01EF "󠇯" Variation Selector-256 is a special invisible formatting character belonging to the Variation Selectors Supplement block, designed to be combined with a preceding base character to specify a particular glyph variant for that character. This selector, along with others in its range, allows text rendering systems to choose among different visual representations of the same character, such as alternate stroke styles or typographic nuances, without changing the underlying semantic meaning. Unlike ordinary visible characters, it has no independent graphic appearance and is solely a control code for font and rendering engine interpretation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E01EF |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Variation Selector-256 |
| Block | Variation Selectors Supplement |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS256 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠇯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠇯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x87 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDDEF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E01EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\uddef |