U+E01BD "󠆽" Variation Selector-206 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

󠆽

U+E01BD "󠆽" Variation Selector-206 is a special formatting code point within the Unicode standard's Variation Selectors Supplement block, designed not to be displayed as a visible symbol on its own but to modify the appearance of the preceding character. Specifically, this selector belongs to a set of standardized variation sequences that allow a font or system to choose between different glyph variants for the same base character, often used in East Asian typography or specialized scripts like Mongolian and Sanskrit. When placed after a base character, Variation Selector-206 requests a particular visual style, such as a specific cursive form or a different stroke weighting, enhancing textual precision in historical or complex writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point
U+E01BD
Name
Variation Selector-206
Alias
VS206 (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
󠆽
HTML Hex Encoding
󠆽
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF3 0xA0 0x86 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding
0xDB40 0xDDBD
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000E01BD
C/C++/Java Escape
\udb40\uddbd