What ⑧ means
It marks number eight, usually as an item label.
Circled digits served as typographic list bullets. Parenthesized (8) imitated typewriters. The style passed through East Asian legacy sets; Unicode relates it to similar open-circle numerals in ITC Zapf Dingbats, a symbol typeface.
Part of collections
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsItem or step eight.
Don't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
1A designed sequence ending at item eight.
Questions people ask
1Does ⑧ mean the same as (8)?
Yes as a list marker: both mean item eight. ⑧ is circled; (8) is parenthesized.
Collections with ⑧
3How to type or find ⑧
- Also called
- circled 8 · maru 8
- Search it as
- ⑧
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⑧CSS
\2467Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⑧
HTML hex
⑧
CSS content
content: "\2467";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%91%A7
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.





