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variation selector-110

Variation Selector-110

In Unicode 18.0, VS110 requests a chosen Chinese-character form only in a registered ideographic variation sequence (IVS). The base and selector must match.

Text symbol
Also called
VS110
Search it as
IVS · Han variant
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 󠅝 means

It selects an accepted form of the Han character before it.

Unicode added selectors in 2002 to preserve glyph choices in plain text. This range covers regional, historical, and name-specific Han variants.

An IVS pairs a Han character—a Chinese-origin character used in Chinese, Japanese, and sometimes Korean—with its selector.

Why is variation selector-110 blank?

Blank is expected when the sequence is unsupported.

Alone or after the wrong base, it stays invisible and the base keeps its usual form. A supporting font must recognize the pair to show the variant.

Don't confuse it with

4
󠄀
Variation Selector-17
shares “selector”, “variation”
󠄁
Variation Selector-18
shares “selector”, “variation”
󠄂
Variation Selector-19
shares “selector”, “variation”
󠄃
Variation Selector-20
shares “selector”, “variation”

Questions people ask

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Why does 󠅝 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 󠅝

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType E015D, then Alt+X to get 󠅝.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “variation selector-110”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType e015d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
󠅝
CSS
\E015D
How to use variation selector-110
Enter the registered Han base, then this selector immediately after it in an input method that supports the pair.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
󠅝
HTML hex
󠅝
CSS content
content: "\E015D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F3%A0%85%9D
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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