Variation Selector-135

This invisible variation selector requests a glyph only in a defined base-plus-selector sequence. The Ideographic Variation Database’s 2026-08-03 release lists no registered sequence using it, so it does not currently select a registered ideograph form.

Text symbol

What 󠅶 means

Only a defined pair can select a glyph.

A selector has no fixed meaning by itself: the base character determines the glyph subset it names.

Why put an invisible selector after a Han character?

Plain text can preserve a glyph choice without rich-text formatting.

For Han characters—Chinese-derived characters used across East Asian scripts—scholars, governments, and publishers need different variant collections. The Ideographic Variation Database gives each registered pair one stable definition.

Its first collection, Adobe-Japan1, was registered 2007-12-14.

Part of the collection

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Variation Selectors

Questions people ask

Why does 󠅶 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Variation Selectors Supplement block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.