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adlam digit eight

Adlam digit eight

𞥘 is Adlam’s digit for eight, used in Adlam numerals for Fula (Fulani or Fulfulde). Its numbers run right-to-left with the text.

Text symbol
Search it as
8 · adlam · fulani · fulfulde · pulaar · pular · peul · peulh
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𞥘 means

It represents the value eight in Adlam numbers.

In 1989, Guinean brothers Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry devised Adlam to fit Fula sounds. Ajami used Arabic letters for Fula but fit its sounds unevenly; earlier Fula Dita and Fula Ba saw little adoption. Adlam is distinct, though its direction and joining draw on Arabic writing. A-D-L-M abbreviates the Fula phrase “Alkule Dandaydhe Leñol Mulugol,” meaning “the alphabet that protects the people from vanishing.” Community teaching and books carried it beyond Guinea.

How do Adlam numbers run?

The highest place starts at the right.

Later digits continue left. Arabic-Indic digits, used in Arabic text, keep a left-to-right number order.

Don't confuse it with

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𞥐
Adlam Digit Zero
shares “adlam”, “digit”
𞥑
Adlam Digit One
shares “adlam”, “digit”
𞥒
Adlam Digit Two
shares “adlam”, “digit”
𞥓
Adlam Digit Three
shares “adlam”, “digit”

Combination ideas

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80; 8 is in the tens place.

Questions people ask

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Why does Adlam eight show as a box?

A font without Adlam support may show a box; the character remains eight.

How to type 𞥘

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1E958, then Alt+X to get 𞥘.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “adlam digit eight”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1e958, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𞥘
CSS
\1E958
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𞥘
HTML hex
𞥘
CSS content
content: "\1E958";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9E%A5%98
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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