What 󠆐 means
It can specify a registered shape after a Han character.
Han characters are the Chinese-origin characters used in Chinese and Japanese writing, and in some Korean contexts. A variation sequence places a selector after one Han character to request a registered shape; the selector has no meaning by itself. This system preserves meaningful shape differences in plain text without encoding every form as a separate character. The Ideographic Variation Database began with Adobe-Japan1 on 2007-12-14 and later added collections for other communities' needs.
As of 2026-08-03, Unicode's published IVD sequence list has no entry using UE0190. If this selector follows an ideograph, there is no registered shape for it to request. When a pair is invalid or unsupported, the Han character appears as usual and the selector stays invisible.
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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
- VS161
- Search it as
- invisible character · han selector · IVS
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠆐\E0190Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.