What 󠆛 means
It needs its base character and a registered pair.
Variation selectors let unformatted text request a character’s drawn form when font settings cannot travel. A 2003 Unicode proposal identified ideograph variants as an expected use; the registry began registering pairs in 2007. Separate collections let scholars, governments, and publishers record different glyph choices.
Unsupported selectors stay invisible and leave the base character unchanged.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type 󠆛
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType E019B, 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-172”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType e019b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
󠆛CSS
\E019BCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
󠆛
HTML hex
󠆛
CSS content
content: "\E019B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F3%A0%86%9B
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.