Digit Eight
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 56 on the numeric keypad to insert digit eight.
- Alt code
- Alt+56
- HTML entity
- 8
- Unicode
- U+0038
About this symbol
Eight is the luckiest number in Chinese, because ba, eight, sounds like the word for prosperity. The Beijing Olympics opened at 8 seconds past 8.08 in the evening on 8 August 2008, and phone numbers full of eights sell for high prices.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- DIGIT EIGHT
- Type
- Digit
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII digits
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.