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Variation Selectors (Unicode block)

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Unicode character block

Variation Selectors
Range	U+FE00..U+FE0F (16 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Inherited
Assigned	16 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Unicode version history

3.2(2002)	16 (+16)

Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note:^[1]^[2]

Variation Selectors is aUnicode block containing 16 variation selectors used to specify aglyph variant for a preceding character. They are currently used to specify standardized variation sequences for mathematical symbols,emoji symbols,'Phags-pa letters, and CJK unified ideographs corresponding toCJK compatibility ideographs. At present only standardized variation sequences with VS1–VS4, VS7, VS15 and VS16 have been defined;VS15 and VS16 are reserved to request that a character should be displayed as text or as an emoji respectively.^[3]^[4]

These combining characters are namedvariation selector-1 (for U+FE00) through tovariation selector-16 (U+FE0F), and are abbreviated VS1 – VS16. Each applies to the immediately preceding character.

As of Unicode 17.0:^[5]

CJK compatibility ideograph variation sequences contain VS1–VS3 (U+FE00–U+FE02)
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A andB variation sequences contain VS1 (U+FE00) and VS2 (U+FE01)
Emoji variation sequences contain VS16 (U+FE0F) for emoji-style (with color) or VS15 (U+FE0E) for text style (monochrome). This use is deprecated; newer emoji versions of existing dingbat characters have a separate code point for the emoji form, such asU+1FAAF 🪯KHANDA whose dingbat form isU+262C ☬ADI SHAKTI.^[6]^[7]^[8]
Basic Latin,Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms,Manichaean,Myanmar,Myanmar Extended-A,Phags-pa, and mathematical variation sequences contain only VS1 (U+FE00)
Egyptian Hieroglyphs variation sequences VS1–VS7 (U+FE00–FE06) are used to rotate specific signs
VS8–VS14 (U+FE07–FE0D) are not used for any variation sequences

Variation Selectors^[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

U+FE0x

VS
1

VS
2

VS
3

VS
4

VS
5

VS
6

VS
7

VS
8

VS
9

VS
10

VS
11

VS
12

VS
13

VS
14

VS
15

VS
16

Notes

1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0

This list is continued in theVariation Selectors Supplement.

History

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The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Variation Selectors block:

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
3.2	U+FE00..FE0F	16	L2/97-260		Hiura, Hideki;Kobayashi, Tatsuo (1997-12-01),Plane 14 Variant Tag
			L2/98-039		Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), "2.D.4 Variant Tag Mechanism",Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997
			L2/98-277		Hiura, Hideki; Kobayashi, Tatsuo (1998-07-29),Plane 14 Variant tag
			L2/98-281R (pdf,html)		Aliprand, Joan (1998-07-31), "III.E.3 Variant Tagging (III.E.3)",Unconfirmed Minutes – UTC #77 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 174 JOINT MEETING, Redmond, WA -- July 29-31, 1998
			L2/00-187		Moore, Lisa (2000-08-23), "Variation Selector",UTC minutes -- Boston, August 8-11, 2000
			L2/01-268		Freytag, Asmus (2001-06-27),Variant selector
			L2/01-309		Jenkins, John (2001-08-08),Variation selectors and Han
			L2/01-324R		Davis, Mark (2001-08-17),Variation Selectors [document has incorrect L2 ID number]
			L2/01-295R		Moore, Lisa (2001-11-06), "88-M5",Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting #88
			L2/02-154	N2403	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-04-22), "7.12",Draft minutes of WG 2 meeting 41, Hotel Phoenix, Singapore, 2001-10-15/19
			L2/17-086		Burge, Jeremy; et al. (2017-03-27),Add ZWJ, VS-16, Keycaps & Tags to Emoji_Component
			L2/17-103		Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "E.1.7 Add ZWJ, VS-16, Keycaps & Tags to Emoji_Component",UTC #151 Minutes
^Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names