What 󠅑 means
It needs a CJK character before it.
A CJK ideograph is a character from the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ideograph repertoire. An ideographic variation sequence (IVS) pairs one with a following selector to request a defined alternate glyph, or printed shape. It does not create a new character.
Unicode's variation-selector mechanism was introduced for plain-text glyph choice in Unicode 3.2 (2002). The supplemental selector range was documented in ISO/IEC 10646:2003, and the Japanese Adobe-Japan1 IVS collection was registered in 2007. Scholars, publishers, and government bodies needed exact CJK forms in plain text without relying on rich-text formatting. The number 98 alone does not name a visual style: the preceding ideograph and defined pair determine the request. If a font lacks that mapping, the base glyph usually appears unchanged.
A technical text instruction used in CJK character and font processing, with no spoken meaning of its own.
Alone, it has no standalone reading; check whether a preceding ideograph was lost.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsRequests the defined alternate shape for that base character.
Related characters
2
Questions people ask
1Can I invent a variation sequence with this selector?
No. Only standardized or registered base-plus-selector pairs have defined behavior; other pairings are unreliable when text is exchanged.
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How to type or find 󠅑
- Also called
- VS98 · VS-98
- Search it as
- ivs · e0151 · ideographic variation sequence · invisible selector
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠅑\E0151Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.