What 󠇏 means
A registered pair selects a form of the same character. Han characters are Chinese-derived characters used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The pair is an ideographic variation sequence (IVS); Unicode’s Ideographic Variation Database (IVD) maps registered pairs to printed forms. A selector has no global meaning; its effect depends on the base.
IVS preserves print distinctions without encoding each form as a new character. In Japan, Adobe-Japan1 supports publishing; Hanyo-Denshi grew from a public-sector program (2002–2008) cataloguing forms used in family and resident records.
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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
- VS224
- Search it as
- ivs · invisible character · han variant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠇏\E01CFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.