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variation selector-169

Variation Selector-169

VS169 is an invisible selector that can request a form of a Han character (a character used in Chinese, Japanese, and other East Asian writing) when it follows that character in a registered ideographic variation sequence (IVS), a listed character-selector pair. It can preserve print distinctions that matter in personal and place names; by itself, this selector changes nothing. Unicode's IVD sequence file dated 2026-08-03 lists no sequence using U+E0198.

Text symbol
Also called
VS169
Search it as
ivs · kanji variant · han variant
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 󠆘 means

To preserve selected printed forms of a character. Unicode gives one shared text code to many closely related Han-character forms that count as the same character; fonts usually choose how a character looks. In Japan, a particular written form can matter in personal names and public records; an IVS places a selector after the character to identify one registered form. The Unicode IVD began registering sequences with Adobe-Japan1 on 2007-12-14 and later added other collections, including Moji_Joho.

Don't confuse it with

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󠄀
Variation Selector-17
shares “selector”, “variation”
󠄁
Variation Selector-18
shares “selector”, “variation”
󠄂
Variation Selector-19
shares “selector”, “variation”
󠄃
Variation Selector-20
shares “selector”, “variation”

Questions people ask

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Why 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.

How to type 󠆘

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType E0198, then Alt+X to get 󠆘.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “variation selector-169”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType e0198, then Enter or Space.
HTML
󠆘
CSS
\E0198
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
󠆘
HTML hex
󠆘
CSS content
content: "\E0198";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F3%A0%86%98
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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.

Families this belongs to

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