What 󠆱 means
A registered Han-character pair identifies the requested printed form.
A variation sequence puts a selector after a Han character, a Chinese-derived character also used in Japanese and Korean writing. The same written character can have different printed forms in regional or source-specific conventions. This lets plain text request one without relying on rich formatting or font changes.
The IVD maintains separate collections because scholars, governments, and publishers can need different sets of forms. Its first collection, Adobe-Japan1, was registered in December 2007 for Japanese font forms. If a pair is unregistered or unsupported by the font or app, the base displays as usual and the selector stays invisible.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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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 󠆱
- Also called
- VS194
- Search it as
- ivs · invisible character · han character form
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠆱\E01B1Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.