U+FE05 "︅" Variation Selector-6 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE05 "︅" Variation Selector-6 is a combining diacritical mark in the Unicode standard that modifies the appearance of a preceding character, typically used in conjunction with CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs to request a specific glyph variant from a font, such as a different style of stroke or shape, in accordance with standardized variation sequences. Unlike a standalone symbol, this invisible control character is placed directly after the base character it affects, allowing text rendering engines to select a predefined alternative glyph for that character if available in the chosen font.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE05 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Variation Selector-6 |
| Block | Variation Selectors |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS6 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ︅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ︅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB8 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE05 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE05 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe05 |