What 󠆍 means
Only a registered pair can request a particular written form.
An ideographic variation sequence (IVS) puts a selector after an East Asian character. The registered pair identifies which accepted form text software should display; the number 158 alone does not name a style.
Variation selectors entered Unicode in version 3.2 in 2002. VS158 was added in version 4.0 in 2003; the Ideographic Variation Database first registered the Adobe-Japan1 collection in 2007.
Why is variation selector 158 invisible?
It has no visible shape of its own.
Without a recognized pair that the text system supports, software normally ignores the selector and leaves the base character visible.
Technical and invisible; its effect depends on a registered character pair.
A selector alone cannot replace a character or choose a universal style.
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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
- VS158
- Search it as
- VS 158 · variation selector 158 · IVS · invisible character · ideographic variation sequence · glyph variant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠆍\E018DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.