U+2177 "ⅷ" Small Roman Numeral Eight Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ⅷ
U+2177 "ⅷ" Small Roman Numeral Eight is a typographic variant of the Roman numeral for eight, intended for use in contexts where a lowercase or small form is desired, such as in clocks, lists, or decorative text, and it represents the value 8 by combining the symbols "ⅴ" (five) and "ⅲ" (three) in the traditional additive notation of Roman numerals. This character is part of the Number Forms block in Unicode, which was designed to provide a standardized set of precomposed Roman numeral glyphs for better typographic consistency and accessibility across digital platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2177 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Small Roman Numeral Eight |
| Block | Number Forms |
| General Category | Letter Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "v" U+0076 Latin Small Letter V "i" U+0069 Latin Small Letter I "i" U+0069 Latin Small Letter I "i" U+0069 Latin Small Letter I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⅷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⅷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x85 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2177 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002177 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2177 |