# Variation Selectors

> Unicode block (U+FE00-FE0F) containing special format controls, to be encoded (in standardized pairs) after specific base characters in order to select their intended graphical variant

**Wikidata**: [Q2494106](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2494106)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_Selectors_(Unicode_block))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/variation-selectors


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [Unicode Consortium](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFE00.pdf)
3. [Source](https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/Blocks.txt)
4. [Source](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFE00.pdf)