Variation Selectors Supplement

Variation Selectors Supplement
Variation Selectors Supplement
Range	U+E0100..U+E01EF; (240 code points)
Plane	SSP
Scripts	Inherited
Assigned	240 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.0 (2003)	240 (+240)
Unicode documentation
	Code chart ∣ Web page
	Note:

Variation Selectors Supplement is a Unicode block containing additional Variation Selectors beyond those found in the Variation Selectors block.

These combining characters are named variation selector-17 (for U+E0100) through to variation selector-256 (U+E01EF), abbreviated VS17 – VS256.

As of 12 December 2017^[update], VS17 (U+E0100) to VS48 (U+E011F) are used in ideographic variation sequences in the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (IVD).^[3]^[4] These selectors are known as Ideographic Variation Selectors (IVS). They are not listed in the list of standardized variation sequence, instead they are listed in another Ideographic Variation Database.

Variation Selectors Supplement^[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+E010x	VS 17	VS 18	VS 19	VS 20	VS 21	VS 22	VS 23	VS 24	VS 25	VS 26	VS 27	VS 28	VS 29	VS 30	VS 31	VS 32
U+E011x	VS 33	VS 34	VS 35	VS 36	VS 37	VS 38	VS 39	VS 40	VS 41	VS 42	VS 43	VS 44	VS 45	VS 46	VS 47	VS 48
U+E012x	VS 49	VS 50	VS 51	VS 52	VS 53	VS 54	VS 55	VS 56	VS 57	VS 58	VS 59	VS 60	VS 61	VS 62	VS 63	VS 64
U+E013x	VS 65	VS 66	VS 67	VS 68	VS 69	VS 70	VS 71	VS 72	VS 73	VS 74	VS 75	VS 76	VS 77	VS 78	VS 79	VS 80
U+E014x	VS 81	VS 82	VS 83	VS 84	VS 85	VS 86	VS 87	VS 88	VS 89	VS 90	VS 91	VS 92	VS 93	VS 94	VS 95	VS 96
U+E015x	VS 97	VS 98	VS 99	VS 100	VS 101	VS 102	VS 103	VS 104	VS 105	VS 106	VS 107	VS 108	VS 109	VS 110	VS 111	VS 112
U+E016x	VS 113	VS 114	VS 115	VS 116	VS 117	VS 118	VS 119	VS 120	VS 121	VS 122	VS 123	VS 124	VS 125	VS 126	VS 127	VS 128
U+E017x	VS 129	VS 130	VS 131	VS 132	VS 133	VS 134	VS 135	VS 136	VS 137	VS 138	VS 139	VS 140	VS 141	VS 142	VS 143	VS 144
U+E018x	VS 145	VS 146	VS 147	VS 148	VS 149	VS 150	VS 151	VS 152	VS 153	VS 154	VS 155	VS 156	VS 157	VS 158	VS 159	VS 160
U+E019x	VS 161	VS 162	VS 163	VS 164	VS 165	VS 166	VS 167	VS 168	VS 169	VS 170	VS 171	VS 172	VS 173	VS 174	VS 175	VS 176
U+E01Ax	VS 177	VS 178	VS 179	VS 180	VS 181	VS 182	VS 183	VS 184	VS 185	VS 186	VS 187	VS 188	VS 189	VS 190	VS 191	VS 192
U+E01Bx	VS 193	VS 194	VS 195	VS 196	VS 197	VS 198	VS 199	VS 200	VS 201	VS 202	VS 203	VS 204	VS 205	VS 206	VS 207	VS 208
U+E01Cx	VS 209	VS 210	VS 211	VS 212	VS 213	VS 214	VS 215	VS 216	VS 217	VS 218	VS 219	VS 220	VS 221	VS 222	VS 223	VS 224
U+E01Dx	VS 225	VS 226	VS 227	VS 228	VS 229	VS 230	VS 231	VS 232	VS 233	VS 234	VS 235	VS 236	VS 237	VS 238	VS 239	VS 240
U+E01Ex	VS 241	VS 242	VS 243	VS 244	VS 245	VS 246	VS 247	VS 248	VS 249	VS 250	VS 251	VS 252	VS 253	VS 254	VS 255	VS 256
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Variation Selectors Supplement block:

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
4.0	U+E0100..E01EF	240	L2/97-260		Hiura, Hideki; Kobayashi, Tatsuo (1997-12-01), Plane 14 Variant Tag
			L2/98-039		Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-02-24), "2.D.4 Variant Tag Mechanism", Preliminary Minutes - UTC #74 & L2 #171, Mountain View, CA - December 5, 1997
			L2/98-277		Hiura, Hideki; Kobayashi, Tatsuo (1998-07-29), Plane 14 Variant tag
			L2/98-281R (pdf, html)		Aliprand, Joan (1998-07-31), "III.E.3 Variant Tagging (III.E.3)", Unconfirmed Minutes - UTC #77 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 174 JOINT MEETING, Redmond, WA -- July 29-31, 1998
			L2/01-268		Freytag, Asmus (2001-06-27), Variant selector
			L2/01-309		Jenkins, John (2001-08-08), Variation selectors and Han
			L2/01-324R		Davis, Mark (2001-08-17), Variation Selectors [document has incorrect L2 ID number]
			L2/01-295R		Moore, Lisa (2001-11-06), "88-M5", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting #88
			L2/02-154	N2403	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-04-22), "7.12", Draft minutes of WG 2 meeting 41, Hotel Phoenix, Singapore, 2001-10-15/19
			L2/02-372	N2453 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-10-30), "M42.21 (Amendment 1 to 10646-2)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 42
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ "Ideographic Variation Database". Unicode Consortium.
^ "UTS #37, Unicode Ideographic Variation Database". Unicode Consortium.

[final-5] Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

[1] "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

[2] "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

[IVD-3] "Ideographic Variation Database". Unicode Consortium.

[UTS37-4] "UTS #37, Unicode Ideographic Variation Database". Unicode Consortium.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[a]