Appendix:Ideographic variations

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Some CJKV characters can have more than one visual variation. There is the "default" shape which does not need any variation selector, but can still vary between different standardizations (PRC Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, ROC Chinese, Japanese, (South) Korean, and Vietnamese. However, Japanese has different standards and to pick the right glyph, a variation selector from 17 onwards is used. There is also a small number of Korean variations and some variations for Macau standard, which is otherwise grouped with Hong Kong standard.

List of variations is split and is available on the following pages:

• Appendix:Ideographic variations/CJK unified ideographs
• Appendix:Ideographic variations/CJK extension A
• Appendix:Ideographic variations/CJK extension B
• Appendix:Ideographic variations/Other blocks

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