What 󠅻 means
The base character supplies the meaning; the selector narrows its drawn form. A glyph is a character’s visible shape. An Ideographic Variation Sequence (IVS)—a Han character followed by a selector—lets plain text specify a narrower set of glyphs when exact forms matter, as in names or reference records.
The selector’s effect is not universal: after different base ideographs, the same selector can identify different glyph subsets. Use a registered pair for reliable text exchange.
A silent instruction for choosing a Han glyph form in plain text, not a message-bearing symbol.
A bare VS140 cannot pick a glyph; its effect belongs to a registered base-character pair.
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Questions people ask
1Is UE017B used in a registered IVS?
No. The Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (IVD) release dated 2026-08-03 contains no registered sequence using UE017B.
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How to type or find 󠅻
- Also called
- VS140
- Search it as
- vs 140 · invisible character · invisible unicode · ivs selector · han variant selector · cjk glyph variant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠅻\E017BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.