What 󠇮 means
No; that was only a proposal. A 2016 proposal for Pan-CJK fonts—fonts serving Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text—would have used VS255 for ideograph variants in the People's Republic of China (PRC) region. The proposed collection was not registered. The IVD release dated 2026-08-03 contains no registered sequence using VS255, so the number alone does not mean “Chinese glyph.”
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type 󠇮
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType E01EE, 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-255”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType e01ee, then Enter or Space.
HTML
󠇮CSS
\E01EECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
󠇮
HTML hex
󠇮
CSS content
content: "\E01EE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F3%A0%87%AE
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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.