Variation Selectors (Unicode block)

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Variation Selectors is a Unicode block containing 16 Variation Selector format characters. They are used to specify a specific glyph variant for a unicode character, such as the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or Taiwanese form of a particular CJK ideograph.

Variation Selectors
RangeU+FE00..U+FE0F
(16 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Assigned16 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.2 (2002)16 (+16)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1]
Variation Selectors[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+FE0x  VS 
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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16
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 22 March 2013.