What 󠄡 means
Nothing by itself; it only works in a registered pair.
Unicode proposals around 2003 adapted variation selectors for Chinese and Japanese characters. Japan’s Hanyo-Denshi project, active 2002 through 2009, collected administrative character distinctions later represented in Unicode’s Ideographic Variation Database (IVD). Japanese and Chinese collections use registered sequences to preserve different written forms of one base character; historic-text work can preserve forms scholars treat as the same character.
Unicode treats variation selectors as ignorable for display: an unsupported pair leaves the base character visible as usual and adds no mark. Alone, VS50 has no visible glyph.
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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
- VS50
- Search it as
- IVS · invisible selector · ideographic variation sequence · character form variant · CJK glyph
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠄡\E0121Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.