What means
It marks the number eight. Ol Onal was devised for Bhumij, a language spoken in eastern India. Mahendra Nath Sardar began developing it around 1981; the Bhumij community group Adim Bhumij Samaj chose it in a 1992 script contest. Ol Onal has its own decimal digits, with values 0–9.
Why does the Ol Onal eight look different in old examples?
Its value stayed eight; its shape changed. Handwritten forms differed from the first digital fonts, which changed the designs in 2013 because the originals were hard to render.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 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.
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How to type or find
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- ol onal 8 · ol onal numeral · bhumij numbers
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
𞗹CSS
\1E5F9Older font mapping
Fonts made in 2013–14 mapped Latin letters to Ol Onal shapes. Their text depends on that font; it does not contain Ol Onal characters.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1E5F9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9E%97%B9
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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.