U+248F "⒏" Digit Eight Full Stop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+248F "⒏" Digit Eight Full Stop is a typographic symbol used to represent the number eight followed by a period, often employed in lists, outlines, or numbered sequences as a single, compact glyph rather than typing the digit and punctuation separately. It belongs to the Enclosed Alphanumerics block, which primarily focuses on numbers and letters surrounded by brackets or combined with punctuation for formatting purposes, though this specific character lacks the enclosing circle or parentheses seen elsewhere in the block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+248F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Digit Eight Full Stop |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Digit Eight Period |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumerics |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | European Number |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "8" U+0038 Digit Eight "." U+002E Full Stop |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⒏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⒏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x92 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x248F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000248F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u248f |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Digital |
| Numeric Value | 8 |
| Line Break | Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "8" U+0038 Digit Eight "." U+002E Full Stop |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "8" U+0038 Digit Eight "." U+002E Full Stop |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |