Digit eight Emoji

Symbols

The digit eight, rendered in a standard, bold sans-serif typeface. This character serves as the primary numerical representation for the value between seven and nine in most global numbering systems.

Usage Context

Used frequently in day-to-day messaging for prices, dates, or basic math. It is a staple in digital communication for shorthand, often appearing in sequences alongside 7 or 9 to count down or up. It is also the standard character used when typing out phone numbers or addresses.

History

As a standard Arabic numeral, the digit eight has been a fixture of digital character sets since the inception of ASCII in the 1960s. It was later formally integrated into the Unicode standard to ensure that every computing device could reliably display basic mathematical values without software-specific encoding errors.

Details

Glyph

Unicode

U+0038

Shortcode

:emoji_u0038:

HTML Entity

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Symbols

Subcategory alphanum

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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