What 󠆒 means
In a registered sequence, it distinguishes glyph forms.
A variation sequence pairs a Han character, used in Chinese, Japanese, and some Korean writing, with a selector to preserve its drawn form in plain text. The same selector number can mark different variants after different base characters.
Why is VS163 invisible?
It has no visible shape of its own.
A font or app without support for the registered pair shows the base character normally and ignores the selector.
Part of the collection
Worth knowing
- This supplementary set extends earlier selectors. A 2001 proposal cited personal names, East Asian font sets, and South Korean variants needed for the Tripitaka, a Buddhist scripture collection; pair registration began in 2007.
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
- VS163
- Search it as
- vs 163 · ideographic variation selector · invisible unicode character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
󠆒CSS
\E0192Input method editors
Some list registered variants among the base character's choices.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
󠆒
HTML hex
󠆒
CSS content
content: "\E0192";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F3%A0%86%92
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.