What 󠆴 means
It narrows a character to its registered set of glyph forms. A glyph is a character’s drawn shape. A registered pair can preserve a form needed in a Japanese name or reprint. The same selector can refer to different forms after different ideographs.
Why is VS197 invisible?
A variation selector has no visible mark of its own. If the pair is invalid or unsupported, software shows the ideograph as usual and hides the selector. By itself, this character looks blank.
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Questions people ask
1Is VS197 the emoji variation selector?
No. VS197 is for ideograph forms. Emoji use VS15 for text presentation and VS16 for emoji presentation, so VS197 does not switch an emoji’s style.
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How to type or find 󠆴
- Also called
- VS197
- Search it as
- ivs · invisible character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
󠆴CSS
\E01B4Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
󠆴
HTML hex
󠆴
CSS content
content: "\E01B4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F3%A0%86%B4
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.