What 󠄫 means
No; it only has a defined effect in a registered base-and-selector pair. UE012B has no glyph of its own.
An ideographic variation sequence (IVS) is an ideograph—a character used in Chinese, Japanese or Korean writing—followed by a selector. The Ideographic Variation Database (IVD) lists registered pairs. A selector's effect depends on the base, so the same one can mark different glyph distinctions.
A Unicode proposal dated 2001-08-08 cited exact glyphs in personal names, East Asian font collections, and South Korea's character variants for texts such as the Tripitaka, a Buddhist scripture collection, as reasons for plain-text selectors. If a pair is unregistered or unsupported, the base appears as usual and the selector stays invisible.
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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
- VS60
- Search it as
- ivs · glyph · invisible
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠄫\E012BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.