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U+FE0F COMBINING MARK

VARIATION SELECTOR-16

Preview uses dotted circle base (◌) for visibility. Clipboard copy copies only the raw diacritic mark.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name VARIATION SELECTOR-16
Code Point U+FE0F
Decimal Value 65039
General Category Nonspacing Mark (Mn) →
Unicode Block Variation Selectors →
Script Inherited →
Unicode Version Unicode 3.2 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes EF B8 8F
UTF-16 Code Unit FE0F
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000FE0F
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: FE 0F LE: 0F FE
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 FE 0F LE: 0F FE 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ️
HTML Hexadecimal ️
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00FE0F
JavaScript (ES6) \uFE0F
JavaScript (UTF-16) \uFE0F
JSON Escape \uFE0F
Python \uFE0F
PHP "\u{FE0F}"
Java "\uFE0F"
C / C++ "\uFE0F"
Rust '\u{fe0f}'
URL Percent-Encoded %EF%B8%8F

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class NSMNonspacing Mark
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+FE0F across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
◌️
Context: A ◌️ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
◌️
Context: A ◌️ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
◌️
Context: A ◌️ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
◌️
Context: A ◌️ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name VARIATION SELECTOR-16

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+FE0F

Related Characters & Collections

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Emoji Equivalent Participates in emoji sequences as SMILING FACE.
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