U+E01EF "󠇯" Variation Selector-256 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

󠇯

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
Name
Variation Selector-256
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