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󠄗

variation selector-40

Variation Selector-40

VS40 can request a registered glyph form for a specific Han character. Unicode 18.0 recommends displaying it when it is not immediately after a character it can modify; in a supported pair, it normally stays invisible.

Text symbol

Also called: VS40
Search it as: ivs · ideograph · han · cjk
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 󠄗 means

It requests a registered glyph form for a Han character.

A Han character is a Chinese-derived ideograph used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing. An Ideographic Variation Sequence (IVS) puts one first and a registered selector immediately after it. The base character and registry entry determine the form; VS40 has no fixed “style 40” meaning.

This mechanism lets plain text request a chosen form when font choice or rich formatting cannot travel with it. Separate registered collections serve different scholarly, government, and publishing needs; each variant still represents the same character.

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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Is VS40 an emoji?

No. It is an invisible text control for registered Han glyph forms; it has no emoji-style variant.

Why did adding VS40 change nothing?

The pair may be unregistered or unsupported. Normal rendering then shows the base character in its usual form and hides VS40.

How to type 󠄗

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType E0117, 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-40”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType e0117, then Enter or Space.

HTML

󠄗

CSS

\E0117

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

󠄗

HTML hex

󠄗

CSS content

content: "\E0117";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F3%A0%84%97

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On screen

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Code points

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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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