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variation selector-176

Variation Selector-176

Variation Selector-176 is an invisible instruction for choosing a glyph form of a Han character—the character tradition used in Chinese and Japanese writing, and in some Korean contexts. It only works in a registered base-character pair; alone, it has no meaning. The IVD release dated 2026-08-03 lists no registered sequence using U+E019F.

Text symbol
Also called
VS176 · VS-176
Search it as
ivs · ideographic selector · invisible character · glyph variant · unicode mark
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 󠆟 means

The base character and selector have to be read as a pair.

Variation sequences preserve a glyph choice in plain text without relying on formatting. This supplementary range serves Han-character variants. The Ideographic Variation Database (IVD) registers exact pairs in separate collections for researchers, public agencies and publishers; its first collection, Adobe-Japan1, was registered on 2007-12-14.

Why is variation selector 176 invisible?

The selector itself has no graphic shape.

If a pair is undefined or an app or font cannot display it, Unicode’s fallback is to show the base ideograph normally and ignore the selector. Text can therefore look ordinary even when a variation selector remains in its underlying character sequence.

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 E019F, 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-176”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType e019f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
󠆟
CSS
\E019F
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
󠆟
HTML hex
󠆟
CSS content
content: "\E019F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F3%A0%86%9F
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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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