What ෮ means
It marks the value eight.
Lith Illakkam was used for horoscope calculations and in palm-leaf manuscripts. Modern Sinhala writing normally uses Western digits, so the everyday form for eight is 8.
Rock carvings at Dakkina Vihara include earlier Sinhala numerals resembling Brahmi, an ancient South Asian script, including an eight. A description from 2008 does not establish that ෮ descends directly from one of those carved forms.
Historical and specialist; not a routine modern Sinhala digit.
For ordinary modern Sinhala writing, use 8.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Is ෮ an emoji?
No. It is a text numeral; its displayed shape depends on the font.
How to type ෮
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 0DEE, then Alt+X to get ෮.
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 “sinhala lith digit eight”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 0dee, then Enter or Space.
HTML
෮CSS
\0DEECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
෮
HTML hex
෮
CSS content
content: "\0DEE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%B7%AE
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.