“️” meaning: VARIATION SELECTOR-16 Emoji

Variation Selectors is a Unicode block containing 16 Variation Selector format. They are used to specify a specific glyph variant for a preceding character. They are currently used to specify standardized variation sequences for mathematical symbols, emoji symbols, 'Phags-pa letters, and CJK unified ideographs corresponding to CJK compatibility ideographs. At present only standardized variation sequences with VS1, VS2, VS3, VS15 and VS16 have been defined; VS15 and VS16 are reserved to request that a character should be displayed as text or as an emoji respectively.These combining characters are named variation selector-1 (for U+FE00) through to variation selector-16 (U+FE0F), and are abbreviated VS1 – VS16. Each applies to the immediately preceding character. As of Unicode 11.0: CJK compatibility ideograph variation sequences contain VS1–VS3 (U+FE00–U+FE02) CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A and B variation sequences contain VS1 (U+FE00) and VS2 (U+FE01) Emoji variation sequences contain VS16 (U+FE0F) for emoji-style (with color) or VS15 (U+FE0E) for text style (monochrome) Basic Latin, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, Manichaean, Myanmar, Myanmar Extended-A, Phags-pa, and mathematical variation sequences contain only VS1 (U+FE00) VS4–VS14 (U+FE03–U+FE0D) are not used for any variation sequencesThis list is continued in the Variation Selectors Supplement. 🔗 Variation Selectors (Unicode block)
🌐: Unicodeblock Variantenselektoren, Table des caractères Unicode/UFE00, Variation Selectors (blok Unicode), 變體選擇符 (Unicode區段).