What 󠄂 means
It selects a written form only in a registered sequence. A Han ideograph is a Chinese character also used in Japanese and Korean writing. An ideographic variation sequence (IVS) pairs a base character and a selector to identify a recognized shape. VS19 works only when that exact pair is supported.
By 2001, Unicode discussions covered selecting personal-name forms, preserving East Asian glyph choices when text moved between systems, and Buddhist-text variants that did not need separate characters. Selectors for Mongolian letter shaping and emoji appearance follow different rules. Without support for the exact pair, the base appears as usual and VS19 stays invisible.
Technical text data, not a conversational signal.
Appending VS19 arbitrarily has no defined effect; use it only in a registered pair.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIt selects the written form registered for that exact pair.
Related characters
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Questions 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.
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How to type or find 󠄂
- Also called
- VS19 · VS 19
- Search it as
- e0102 · ivs · han ideograph · ideographic variation sequence · han character variant · variation selector
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠄂\E0102Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.