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variation selector-71

Variation Selector-71

Variation Selector-71 (VS71) is an invisible formatting character meant to request a specific glyph variant after a matching written character. Alone, it has no reader-facing meaning. As of 2026, Unicode’s published ideographic, standardized, and emoji variation data contained no registered sequence using this exact selector, so it has no documented variant to request. The mechanism preserves regional or historical shapes without changing a character’s meaning.

Text symbol
Also called
VS71
Search it as
invisible Unicode character · ideographic variation sequence · CJK glyph variant
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 󠄶 means

It marks a requested glyph form after a compatible character. An ideographic variation sequence pairs a selector with a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean ideograph—a written character—to preserve a documented regional or historical CJK glyph variant. The form changes, not the character’s identity or meaning.

A 2004 proposal set out the need to preserve such forms, and the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database began registering named collections in 2007. If a pairing is unsupported, the selector stays invisible and the preceding character normally remains on screen.

Technical formatting data, not a word or decorative mark.

Alone, it produces no visible space, icon, or change to the preceding 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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Why 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.

How to type 󠄶

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType E0136, 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-71”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType e0136, then Enter or Space.
HTML
󠄶
CSS
\E0136
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
󠄶
HTML hex
󠄶
CSS content
content: "\E0136";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F3%A0%84%B6
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On screen
1
Code points
2
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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