U+FE08 "︈" Variation Selector-9 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE08 "︈" Variation Selector-9 is a non printing control character used in digital text to request a specific glyph variant of the preceding base character, primarily within the framework of standardized variation sequences. Unlike visible symbols, this selector works invisibly to modify the appearance of a character, such as an ideograph or an emoji, according to predefined collections defined by the Unicode Consortium. It belongs to a set of sixteen variation selectors, and its function is entirely dependent on the base character it follows; without a supporting base character, it has no visible effect and no inherent meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE08 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Variation Selector-9 |
| Block | Variation Selectors |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | VS9 (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ︈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ︈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB8 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe08 |