What ٨ means
Arabic 8 and European 8 are different written forms.
Persian and Urdu use ۸, a distinct form for the same value.
Indian decimal numerals spread into the Arabic world. The Brahmi numerals that preceded them appear in inscriptions from around the middle of the third century BCE; Brahmi itself was not a place-value system. Arabic forms later split into eastern and western branches. The oldest known written example of the eastern branch, “260” on an Egyptian papyrus, may date to 873–874 CE. A mathematical manuscript by al-Sijzi in Shiraz dates to 969–972. Western forms evolved into European 8.
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2Questions people ask
1What does ٨ mean in ٨٠?
It is the tens digit, so ٨٠ means eighty.
How to type ٨
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 0668, then Alt+X to get ٨.
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 “arabic-indic digit eight”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 0668, then Enter or Space.
HTML
٨CSS
\0668Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
٨
HTML hex
٨
CSS content
content: "\0668";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%D9%A8
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.