About Variation Selector-16
Variation Selector-16 is the Unicode character ️ at codepoint U+FE0F in the Variation Selectors block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
| Unicode Codepoint | |
| Decimal | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | |
| UTF-16 (hex) | |
| HEX Entity | |
| HTML Entity | |
| CSS (\xxxx) | |
| JavaScript | |
| Python |
How to Use Variation Selector-16
To use the Variation Selector-16 symbol (️) in HTML, insert the
entity ️ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ️ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\FE0F';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\uFE0F' evaluates to ️. In Python source, write '\uFE0F'.
The character encodes to EF B8 8F as UTF-8 bytes and FE0F as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 65039.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.