Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Eight ➑
Symbol Meaning
The Arabic number eight on the dark background will be noticeable in any type of text. Nevertheless, the icon doesn't look extremely pretentious, since it doesn't have any excessive decorative elements. This sans-serif eight placed inside a black circle may be applied together with symbols from 1 to 10 designed similarly: ➊, ➒, ➓ and so on.
Have you seen digit eight used as a nickname or a message topic decoration? Your eyes are not lying to you: apparently, some people believe in the magical nature of this number, since it represents order, renaissance, and eternity in philosophy. In Buddhism eight refers to the wheel of law ☸ and the cosmic lotus.
The symbol “Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Eight” is included in the “Dingbat circled digits” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Dingbat Negative Circled Sans-Serif Digit Eight |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Dingbat circled digits |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2791 |
| Simple case change | 2791 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9E 91 | 226 158 145 | 14851729 | 11100010 10011110 10010001 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 91 | 39 145 | 10129 | 00100111 10010001 |
| UTF-16LE | 91 27 | 145 39 | 37159 | 10010001 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 91 | 0 0 39 145 | 10129 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 10010001 |
| UTF-32LE | 91 27 00 00 | 145 39 0 0 | 2435252224 | 10010001 00100111 00000000 00000000 |