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variation selector-216

Variation Selector-216

Variation Selector-216 is an invisible character from a system for choosing a particular written form of a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean ideograph. Alone, it is not a word, message, space, or emoji; a selector only has a defined job in an ideograph pair that Unicode has listed.

Text symbol
Search it as
vs216 · ivs · ideographic variation · glyph variant · invisible character · ideograph variant
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 󠇇 means

No pair using it appears in the IVD release dated 2026-08-03. An ideographic variation sequence (IVS) is a registered pair: an ideograph (a character used in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean writing) followed by a selector to request a particular glyph variant (written form) in plain text. The selector’s number does not itself name a shape.

Outside a defined pair, a variation selector is meant to stay invisible and be ignored. That is why this character shows nothing by itself; it is not a blank-space character or an emoji. Don’t append it to random text expecting a visible change.

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 E01C7, 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-216”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType e01c7, then Enter or Space.
HTML
󠇇
CSS
\E01C7
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
󠇇
HTML hex
󠇇
CSS content
content: "\E01C7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F3%A0%87%87
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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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Accents & marks659 symbols

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