What 🯸 means
It is a seven-segment form of the number eight.
Atari ST game scores used this separate row of ten digits, apart from the system’s ordinary numerals. Unicode keeps the character so older text can retain its original display style.
Some software cleans up text with NFKC normalization, which turns 🯸 into plain 8 and removes its segmented styling.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 🯸 show as a box?
The font may not include this glyph. As of 2026, terminal support also varies: some terminals draw legacy characters themselves; others need a font that contains them.
How to type 🯸
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FBF8, then Alt+X to get 🯸.
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 “segmented digit eight”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fbf8, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🯸CSS
\1FBF8Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🯸
HTML hex
🯸
CSS content
content: "\1FBF8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AF%B8
1
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.