U+1ED08 "𞴈" Ottoman Siyaq Number Eight Unicode Character

U+1ED08 "𞴈" Ottoman Siyaq Number Eight is a numeral symbol from the Ottoman Siyaq number system, a cursive script used in Ottoman Turkish financial and administrative documents to represent numbers and quantities in account books and tax records. This specific character denotes the numeric value eight, and it was part of a larger set of Siyaq digits that helped prevent fraud in official calculations by using a distinct, non-Arabic numeral style. The character was added to Unicode in version 14.0 (2021) under the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block, preserving a historically significant writing system that once facilitated the complex record keeping of the Ottoman Empire.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1ED08
Version Added	12.0
Name	Ottoman Siyaq Number Eight
Block	Ottoman Siyaq Numbers
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞴈
HTML Hex Encoding	𞴈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xB4 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83B 0xDD08
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001ED08
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83b\udd08

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	8
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other