Variant

Variant may refer to:

• Variant name (geography), a name for a geographic feature that is not in primary use
• Variant Chinese character, Chinese characters that can be used interchangeably
• Chess variant, a game derived from, related to or similar to chess in at least one respect
• Orthographical variant, a variant spelling of the same botanical name
• Variant symlinks, a symbolic link to a file that has a variable name embedded in it
• Variant (magazine), British cultural magazine since 1984
• Variant type, in programming languages
• Volkswagen Variant, an air-cooled station wagon produced until the early 1980s
• Z-variant, unicode characters that share the same etymology but have slightly different appearances
• Variant cover, an issue of comic books printed with multiple cover art