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variation selector-239

Variation Selector-239

Variation Selector-239 is an invisible mark meant to request a particular form of a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character in a defined pair. No registered pair uses it in the IVD release dated 2026-08-03.

Text symbol
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ivs · glyph variant · invisible character · cjk variant
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 󠇞 means

No; it needs the preceding ideograph and a defined pair.

An ideographic variation sequence (IVS) is an ideograph followed by a selector. The glyph request belongs to that exact pair, not to a fixed style such as “Japanese” or “traditional.” If the text system does not support the pair, only the base form may appear; the selector itself has no visible glyph.

A Unicode proposal called these supplementary marks “variant tags” in 1997. A 2001 proposal described their practical aim: preserve preferred CJK glyphs in names, plain-text records, and East Asian font collections without assigning a separate character to every form. Adobe-Japan1 became the IVD’s first collection in 2007.

Don't confuse it with

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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 E01DE, 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-239”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType e01de, then Enter or Space.
HTML
󠇞
CSS
\E01DE
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
󠇞
HTML hex
󠇞
CSS content
content: "\E01DE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F3%A0%87%9E
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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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