U+FE06 "︆" Variation Selector-7 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE06 "︆" Variation Selector-7 is a combining mark used in digital text to request a specific glyph variant of the preceding character, primarily within the context of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs. It belongs to the block of variation selectors and does not have a visible form on its own; instead, it works silently to instruct a font or rendering system to display an alternative, standardised shape for the character it follows. This mechanism is defined by the Unicode Standard to handle subtle differences in character appearance across different scripts and historical typographic traditions, ensuring that precise glyph representations can be maintained in text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE06 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Variation Selector-7 |
| Block | Variation Selectors |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS7 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ︆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ︆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB8 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE06 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE06 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe06 |