U+FE00 "︀" Variation Selector-1 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE00 "︀" Variation Selector-1 is a combining control character, known as a variation selector, that is invisible on its own and designed to modify the appearance of the preceding character by instructing a rendering system to apply a specific visual variant or glyph style from a defined set of presentation forms. It is part of a series of 16 variation selectors in Unicode that allow for standardized typographic alternates, such as switching between different graphical presentations of emoji or CJK ideographs, without altering the base character's fundamental meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE00 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Variation Selector-1 |
| Block | Variation Selectors |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS1 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ︀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ︀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB8 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE00 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe00 |