U+247B "⑻" Parenthesized Digit Eight Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⑻
U+247B "⑻" Parenthesized Digit Eight is a typographic symbol belonging to the Enclosed Alphanumerics block, which encodes numbers and letters enclosed within parentheses for use in lists, outlines, or sequential notations. It represents the digit eight surrounded by a pair of parentheses, providing a visually distinct way to denote the eighth item in a sequence without relying on punctuation marks like periods or brackets. This character is part of a larger set of parenthesized digits from one to twenty, designed for compatibility with legacy encoding systems and for clear, standardized formatting in plain text environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+247B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Digit Eight |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumerics |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis "8" U+0038 Digit Eight ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⑻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⑻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x91 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x247B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000247B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u247b |