What 󠅳 means
A 2000 Unicode note described variation selectors as invisible marks whose effect depends on the preceding character. In 2001, Unicode said these extra selectors could carry catalogued East Asian glyph variants in plain text without assigning a new character to each shape. An ideographic variation sequence (IVS) pairs an East Asian character with a selector; the Ideographic Variation Database (IVD) records such pairs in collections for different needs. A selector's number alone does not name a shape.
Part of the collection
Questions people ask
1Why 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.
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How to type or find 󠅳
- Also called
- VS132
- Search it as
- ivs · invisible · ideograph · glyph · cjk
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠅳\E0173Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.