U+FF18 "８" Fullwidth Digit Eight Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+FF18 "８" Fullwidth Digit Eight is a variant of the standard digit "8" that occupies the same horizontal space as a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph, making it twice as wide as a typical ASCII digit. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block and is used primarily in East Asian typography to achieve visual uniformity when numbers are mixed with fullwidth characters in text. This character ensures that the digit aligns neatly with other fullwidth symbols, such as those found in Japanese or Chinese documents, while retaining the numerical value of the digit eight.
General Properties
Code Point
U+FF18
Name
Fullwidth Digit Eight
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
８
HTML Hex Encoding
８
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBC 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFF18
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FF18
C/C++/Java Escape
\uff18
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
8
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Common