What 󠄪 means
It selects a base character's glyph variant only in a valid sequence.
A 2003 ISO/IEC 10646 draft listed VS59. Its purpose was to request a defined glyph variant in plain text. The IVD supports separate CJK collections for scholars, governments, and publishers.
The pair—not VS59 alone—controls the result. After a letter, emoji, or unsupported pair, the base stays unchanged and the selector stays invisible. The IVD file dated 2026-08-03 lists no registered E012A sequence.
Invisible technical mark; use it only in a defined sequence.
Do not send it alone.
Part of the collection
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
- VS59
- Search it as
- ivs · invisible character · cjk glyph · glyph variant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠄪\E012ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.