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VS2
U+FE01 · VARIATION SELECTOR-2

Variation Selector-2

  • CodepointU+FE01
  • NameVARIATION SELECTOR-2
  • Decimal65025
  • BlockVariation Selectors (U+FE00–U+FE0F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptInherited
  • CategoryMn — Nonspacing Mark
  • Unicode version3.2 (2002)
  • Bidi classNSM — Nonspacing Mark
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+FE01 is VARIATION SELECTOR-2, a variation selector in the Variation Selectors block. Its script is Inherited: it takes on the script of the character it attaches to. It was added in Unicode 3.2 (2002).

It is invisible on its own. Placed after a base character, it selects a specific glyph variant, but only for the combinations listed in the standardized variation sequences or the Ideographic Variation Database. See variation selectors.

Common abbreviation: VS2.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF B8 813 bytes
UTF-16FE011 code unit
UTF-320000FE014 bytes
HTML decimal︁
HTML hex︁
CSS\FE01in content: "…"
JavaScript\uFE01
JSON\uFE01
Python\uFE01
Python\N{VARIATION SELECTOR-2}by name
Java / C#\uFE01
C / C++\uFE01universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FE01}
Go\uFE01
Ruby\uFE01
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65025)
URL-encoded%EF%B8%81percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Variation Selectors

All in block →
U+FE00VS1Variation Selector-1 U+FE02VS3Variation Selector-3 U+FE03VS4Variation Selector-4 U+FE04VS5Variation Selector-5 U+FE05VS6Variation Selector-6 U+FE06VS7Variation Selector-7 U+FE07VS8Variation Selector-8