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.