What 󠅒 means
It requests a glyph variant; alone, it has no message meaning.
Unicode introduced this supplementary selector range in 2003 so plain text could request CJK glyph variants without assigning a separate character to every regional or publishing form. An ideographic variation sequence is a CJK ideograph—a written character used in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean—followed by a registered selector. Different standards and publications can specify distinct forms of the same ideograph.
Why is variation selector 99 invisible?
It has no standalone glyph to display.
A selector changes the requested form only when it follows the correct base character in a defined sequence and the font and software support that sequence. As of 2026-08-03, Unicode’s ideographic and standardized-variant registries list no sequence using VS99. An arbitrary pairing therefore has no registered effect; an ordinary viewer leaves the base glyph as it is and does not display the selector.
Machine-facing and invisible in ordinary text; it carries no message on its own.
Don’t add it to arbitrary text expecting a portable visual change.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1️ VS99 vs VS16: VS16 selects emoji or text presentation for supported characters; VS99 belongs to a different supplementary selector system.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Can I attach VS99 to any character?
No. Only a defined sequence supported by the font and software can request a particular form; attaching VS99 at random does not create a portable style code.
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How to type or find 󠅒
- Also called
- VS99
- Search it as
- e0152 · ivd · glyph variant · cjk glyph variant · ideographic variation sequence · invisible character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
󠅒\E0152󠅒 represents UE0152. Place it after the base character in the markup.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.