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style="display:none">Unicode character block</div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background:#CCE;">Variation Selectors</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Range</th><td class="infobox-data">U+FE00..U+FE0F<br />(16 code points)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Plane</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Basic_Multilingual_Plane" class="mw-redirect" title="Basic Multilingual Plane">BMP</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Scripts</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Script_(Unicode)#Special_script_property_values" title="Script (Unicode)">Inherited</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Assigned</th><td class="infobox-data">16 code points</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Unused</th><td class="infobox-data">0 reserved code points</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#E6E6FF;">Unicode version history</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">3.2 <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">(2002)</span></th><td class="infobox-data">16 (+16)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#E6E6FF;">Unicode documentation</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFE00.pdf">Code chart</a> ∣ <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_FE00.html">Web page</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="background:#eee;"><b>Note</b>: <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Variation Selectors</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Unicode_block" title="Unicode block">Unicode block</a> containing 16 variation selectors used to specify a <a href="/wiki/Variant_form_(Unicode)" title="Variant form (Unicode)">glyph variant</a> for a preceding character. They are currently used to specify standardized variation sequences for mathematical symbols, <a href="/wiki/Emoji" title="Emoji">emoji</a> symbols, <a href="/wiki/%27Phags-pa_script" class="mw-redirect" title="'Phags-pa script">'Phags-pa</a> letters, and CJK unified ideographs corresponding to <a href="/wiki/CJK_compatibility_ideographs" class="mw-redirect" title="CJK compatibility ideographs">CJK compatibility ideographs</a>. At present only standardized variation sequences with VS1–VS4, VS7, VS15 and VS16 have been defined; <abbr title="text">VS15</abbr> and <abbr title="emoji">VS16</abbr> are reserved to request that a character should be displayed as text or as an <a href="/wiki/Emoji" title="Emoji">emoji</a> respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>These combining characters are named <i>variation selector-1</i> (for U+FE00) through to <i>variation selector-16</i> (U+FE0F), and are abbreviated VS1 – VS16. Each applies to the immediately preceding character. </p><p>As of Unicode 13.0:<sup id="cite_ref-UniStdVarTxt_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UniStdVarTxt-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/CJK_Compatibility_Ideographs" title="CJK Compatibility Ideographs">CJK compatibility ideograph</a> variation sequences contain VS1–VS3 (U+FE00–U+FE02)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs_Extension_A" title="CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A">CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A</a> and <a href="/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs_Extension_B" title="CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B">B</a> variation sequences contain VS1 (U+FE00) and VS2 (U+FE01)</li> <li>Emoji variation sequences contain VS16 (U+FE0F) for emoji-style (with color) or VS15 (U+FE0E) for text style (monochrome)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basic_Latin_(Unicode_block)" title="Basic Latin (Unicode block)">Basic Latin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms" title="Halfwidth and fullwidth forms">Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manichaean_(Unicode_block)" title="Manichaean (Unicode block)">Manichaean</a>, <a href="/wiki/Myanmar_(Unicode_block)" title="Myanmar (Unicode block)">Myanmar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Myanmar_Extended-A" title="Myanmar Extended-A">Myanmar Extended-A</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phags-pa_(Unicode_block)" title="Phags-pa (Unicode block)">Phags-pa</a>, and mathematical variation sequences contain only VS1 (U+FE00)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Hieroglyphs_(Unicode_block)#Standardized_variants" title="Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)">Egyptian Hieroglyphs</a> variation sequences VS1–VS4 and VS7 (U+FE00–FE03, and FE06) are used to rotate specific signs</li> <li>VS5, VS6, and VS8–VS14 (U+FE04, FE05, and FE07–FE0D) are not used for any variation sequences</li></ul> <table class="wikitable nounderlines" 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style="width:20pt">2</td> <td style="width:20pt">3</td> <td style="width:20pt">4</td> <td style="width:20pt">5</td> <td style="width:20pt">6</td> <td style="width:20pt">7</td> <td style="width:20pt">8</td> <td style="width:20pt">9</td> <td style="width:20pt">A</td> <td style="width:20pt">B</td> <td style="width:20pt">C</td> <td style="width:20pt">D</td> <td style="width:20pt">E</td> <td style="width:20pt">F </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:inherit;font-size:small">U+FE0x </td> <td title="U+FE00: VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (alias VS1)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />1</span> </td> <td title="U+FE01: VARIATION SELECTOR-2 (alias VS2)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />2</span> </td> <td title="U+FE02: VARIATION SELECTOR-3 (alias VS3)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />3</span> </td> <td title="U+FE03: VARIATION SELECTOR-4 (alias VS4)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />4</span> </td> <td title="U+FE04: VARIATION SELECTOR-5 (alias VS5)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />5</span> </td> <td title="U+FE05: VARIATION SELECTOR-6 (alias VS6)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />6</span> </td> <td title="U+FE06: VARIATION SELECTOR-7 (alias VS7)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />7</span> </td> <td title="U+FE07: VARIATION SELECTOR-8 (alias VS8)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />8</span> </td> <td title="U+FE08: VARIATION SELECTOR-9 (alias VS9)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />9</span> </td> <td title="U+FE09: VARIATION SELECTOR-10 (alias VS10)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />10</span> </td> <td title="U+FE0A: VARIATION SELECTOR-11 (alias VS11)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />11</span> </td> <td title="U+FE0B: VARIATION SELECTOR-12 (alias VS12)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />12</span> </td> <td title="U+FE0C: VARIATION SELECTOR-13 (alias VS13)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />13</span> </td> <td title="U+FE0D: VARIATION SELECTOR-14 (alias VS14)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />14</span> </td> <td title="U+FE0E: VARIATION SELECTOR-15 (alias VS15)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />15</span> </td> <td title="U+FE0F: VARIATION SELECTOR-16 (alias VS16)" style="font-size:75%;line-height:1"><span style="display:inline-block; border:1px dashed black; line-height:1em;"> VS <br />16</span> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="17" style="background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);color:inherit;font-size:small;text-align:left"><b>Notes</b> <dl><dd>1.<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_UFE00_as_of_Unicode_version"><b><a href="#ref_UFE00_as_of_Unicode_version">^</a></b></span> As of Unicode version 16.0</dd></dl> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>This list is continued in the <a href="/wiki/Variation_Selectors_Supplement" title="Variation Selectors Supplement">Variation Selectors Supplement</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Variation_Selectors_(Unicode_block)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Pictographs#Emoji_modifiers" title="Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs">Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs § Emoji modifiers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Variant_form_(Unicode)" title="Variant form (Unicode)">Variant form (Unicode)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading 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Standards">L2</a> ID</th> <th><a href="/wiki/ISO/IEC_JTC_1/SC_2" title="ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2">WG2</a> ID</th> <th>Document </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="12">3.2</td> <td rowspan="12">U+FE00..FE0F</td> <td rowspan="12">16</td> <td><span class="nowrap">L2/97-260</span></td> <td></td> <td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription 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