What 󠅍 means
It can request a drawn form only inside a registered pair. A variation sequence is a character followed by a selector. For Han characters—Chinese characters also used in Japanese and Korean writing—the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (IVD) registers pairs that tell software which drawn form, or glyph, to use. That can preserve the requested form in personal names or historical text.
Early design work is documented in a Plane 14 variant-tag proposal dated 1997-12-01. It describes plain-text cases where a name, place name, dictionary, or historical reference needs a particular drawn form. The Unicode IVD provides a shared registry for such pairs. In its version dated 2026-08-03, no registered pair uses VS94.
Technical encoding control, not a message symbol: it only works after a base character in a registered pair.
Don't append it to style text or turn a character into emoji; it is not a general presentation switch.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
2️ VS16 asks for an emoji form of certain characters; VS94 is not that presentation switch.
︎ VS15 asks for a plain-text form of certain characters; VS94 is not that presentation switch.
Questions people ask
1Why does VS94 look blank?
Expected. A variation selector has no visible mark of its own; if a pair is invalid or unsupported, the base character appears as usual and the selector is ignored.
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How to type or find 󠅍
- Also called
- VS94
- Search it as
- ivs · ideographic variation sequence · cjk glyph variant · han glyph variant · font variant · glyph selector · unicode glyph variant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠅍\E014DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.