What 󠆓 means
A registered IVS pairs a character and selector to narrow glyph choices. A glyph is a typeface's form for a character. The selector follows the base, carrying that form choice in plain text.
Print glyph collections came first. Plain text needed a way to preserve alternate forms without relying on a particular font. Adobe-Japan1, a Japanese typeface collection, became the first collection in Unicode's Ideographic Variation Database (IVD) in 2007. Separate IVD collections serve publishers, scholars, and governments with different glyph needs.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Does UE0193 pick a specific ideograph form?
No. Unsupported or unregistered pairs leave the base character unchanged. The IVD release dated 2026-08-03 contains no registered sequence using UE0193.
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How to type or find 󠆓
- Also called
- VS164
- Search it as
- ivs · cjk · invisible · hidden · glyph · variant · ideograph
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠆓\E0193Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.