What ⒏ means
It marks item eight in an ordered list. It replaces the plain two-character “8.” marker at the start of an item.
Unicode, the standard that assigns identities to text characters, describes full-stop numbers like this as list bullets. Many enclosed characters were encoded for compatibility with older East Asian character sets.
A font draws it as text, so its weight and proportions can vary with the typeface.
A typographic marker suited to structured lists.
Don't confuse it with
28.
⑧Two editable text characters: the ordinary digit followed by a full stop.
Circled Digit Eight
Unlike ⒏, this is a circled eight without a full stop.
Questions people ask
1Why does ⒏ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type ⒏
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 248F, then Alt+X to get ⒏.
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 “digit eight full stop”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 248f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⒏CSS
\248FMicrosoft Word
Type 248F, then press Alt+X in an app that supports Unicode Alt+X to convert the hexadecimal code into ⒏.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⒏
HTML hex
⒏
CSS content
content: "\248F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%92%8F
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.