What 󠄭 means
It selects a specific registered glyph form for an ideograph.
An ideographic variation sequence (IVS) pairs a Han character used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing with a selector to preserve one glyph form without making a new character. Unsupported pairs should be ignored, leaving the base unchanged.
First proposed as an inline “variant tag” in 1997, the design focused by 2001 on exact Han glyphs in plain text, including personal names. A 2004 proposal noted regional and historical variation; the Ideographic Variation Database began registering pairs in 2007.
An invisible technical marker with a narrow glyph-selection role.
An unregistered pair has no visual effect; the selector number is not a reusable style.
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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 󠄭
- Search it as
- vs62 · e012d · ivs · han variant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠄭\E012DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.