What 󠆢 means
In 2003, Unicode proposals connected supplementary selectors to a Han-text problem: plain text sometimes needs a specific glyph without turning every shape into a separate character. Scholars, governments, and publishers may require different sets of acceptable Han forms, so the Ideographic Variation Database registers base-character-plus-selector pairs within collections. Its first collection was registered in 2007. The same selector can point to unrelated variants after different base characters.
Part of the collection
Questions people ask
1Why does 󠆢 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Variation Selectors Supplement block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 󠆢
- Search it as
- vs179 · ivs · han glyph variant · ideographic variation sequence · glyph selector
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠆢\E01A2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.