Variation Selector-16 

U+FE0F
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Symbol Meaning

An invisible codepoint which specifies that the preceding character should be displayed with emoji presentation. Only required if the preceding character defaults to text presentation.

Often used in Emoji ZWJ Sequences, where one or more characters in the sequence have text and emoji presentation, but otherwise default to text (black and white) display.

Examples

Snowman as text: ☃. Snowman as Emoji: ☃️

Black Heart as text: ❤. Black Heart as Emoji: ❤️ (not so black)

The symbol “Variation Selector-16” is included in the “Emoji-specific variation selectors” subblock of the “Variation Selectors” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 3.2 in 2002.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский;

Unicode Name Variation Selector-16
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block Variation Selectors
Unicode Subblock Emoji-specific variation selectors
Unicode Version 3.2 (2002)
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change FE0F
Simple case change FE0F
Case_Ignorable +
ID_Continue +
XID_Continue +
Default_Ignorable_Code_Point +
Grapheme_Extend +
scripts Inherited
Variation_Selector +
InCB +
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 EF B8 8F 239 184 143 15710351 11101111 10111000 10001111
UTF-16BE FE 0F 254 15 65039 11111110 00001111
UTF-16LE 0F FE 15 254 4094 00001111 11111110
UTF-32BE 00 00 FE 0F 0 0 254 15 65039 00000000 00000000 11111110 00001111
UTF-32LE 0F FE 00 00 15 254 0 0 268304384 00001111 11111110 00000000 00000000
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