What 󠆉 means
It requests a glyph variant only inside a registered sequence.
A Han character—an ideograph used in Chinese and also in Japanese and Korean writing—followed by a selector forms an ideographic variation sequence (IVS). In a registered IVS, the pair requests an accepted written form of the same character. The selector’s number has no global meaning; the base character and collection define it.
The idea first appears in 1997 proposals for variant tags in Unicode’s Plane 14, an extra range for special-purpose characters. It evolved into a registry of exact Han-character-plus-selector pairs: scholars, governments, and publishers needed distinct inventories of historical and regional glyph forms. The IVD’s first collection was registered in 2007.
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 󠆉
- Search it as
- vs154 · ivs · variation sequence · glyph variant · ideographic variation sequence · cjk font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠆉\E0189Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.