# 8

| Text style | Emoji style |
| 8︎ | 8️ |
| Text style is forced with ⟨&#xFE0E;⟩ and emoji style with ⟨&#xFE0F;⟩. ||
| 8 U+0038, &#56; DIGIT EIGHT ← 7 [U+0037] Basic Latin 9 → [U+0039] ||
| ⁸ | U+2078, &#8312; SUPERSCRIPT EIGHT |
| ← ⁷ [U+2077] | Superscripts and Subscripts | ⁹ → [U+2079] |
| ₈ | U+2088, &#8328; SUBSCRIPT EIGHT |
| ← ₇ [U+2087] | Superscripts and Subscripts | ₉ → [U+2089] |
| ８ | U+FF18, &#65304; FULLWIDTH DIGIT EIGHT |
| ← ７ [U+FF17] | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | ９ → [U+FF19] |
| 𝟾 | U+1D7FE, &#120830; MATHEMATICAL MONOSPACE DIGIT EIGHT |
| ← 𝟽 [U+1D7FD] | Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols | 𝟿 → [U+1D7FF] |
| 🯸 | U+1FBF8, &#130040; SEGMENTED DIGIT EIGHT |
| ← 🯷 [U+1FBF7] | Symbols for Legacy Computing | 🯹 → [U+1FBF9] |

## Translingual
### Glyph origin

A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari ८ (8)). See 8 § Evolution of the Arabic digit for more.

### Symbol

8 (prev 7, next 9)
* The cardinal number eight.
* A digit in the decimal system of numbering, and also hexadecimal.
* (phonetics, Sinosphere, often superscript) tone number 8, typically identified with light entering yang ru (陽入)
    Synonym: ꜇

#### Gallery

* Letter styles
* Lining digit 8.
* Oldstyle 8 in Fraktur script.

#### Alternative forms

The following are equivalent forms as digits:
* Aegean numerals: please add, if you can
* Arabic (Eastern) numerals: ٨
* Arabic (Western) numerals: 8
* Assamese numerals: ৮
* Balinese numerals: ᭘
* Bengali numerals: ৮
* Brahmi numerals: 𑁮
* Chakma numerals: 𑄾
* Cham numerals: ꩘
* Devanagari numerals: ८
* Dhives Akuru numerals: 𑥘
* Garay numerals: 𐵈
* Gujarati numerals: ૮
* Gurmukhi numerals: ੮
* Indic Siyaq numerals: please add, if you can
* Hanifi Rohingya numerals: 𐴸
* Javanese numerals: ꧘
* Kaktovik numerals: 𝋈
* Kannada numerals: ೮
* Kawi numerals: 𑽘
* Kayah Li numerals: ꤈
* Khmer numerals: ៨
* Khudawadi numerals: 𑋸
* Lanna numerals: (secular) ᪈, (religious) ᪘
* Lao numerals: ໘
* Lepcha numerals: ᱈
* Limbu numerals: ᥎
* Malayalam numerals: ൮
* Maya numerals: 𝋨
* Mende Kikakui numerals: please add, if you can
* Meroitic cursive numerals: please add, if you can
* Meitei numerals: ꯸
* Mongolian numerals: ᠘
* Myanmar numerals: ၈
* N'Ko numerals: ߈
* Ol Chiki numerals: ᱘
* Odia numerals: ୮
* Osmanya numerals: 𐒨
* Ottoman Siyaq numerals: please add, if you can
* Pahawh Hmong numerals: please add, if you can
* Persian numerals: ۸
* Saurashtra numerals: ꣘
* Sharada numerals: 𑇘
* Sinhalese numerals: ෮
* Sundanese numerals: ᮸
* Takri numerals: 𑛈
* Tamil numerals: ௮
* Telugu numerals: ౮
* Thai numerals: ๘
* Tibetan numerals: ༨
* Tirhuta numerals: 𑓘
* Warang Citi numerals: 𑣨
The following are only equivalent as representations of the cardinal number:
* Armenian numerals: Ը
* Brahmi numerals: 𑁙
* Chinese numerals: 捌, 八
* CJK tally marks: 𝍶𝍴
* Counting rod numerals: 𝍰
* Egyptian numerals: 𓐁
* Ethiopic numerals: ፰
* Gothic numerals: 𐌷
* Greek numerals: Η΄, η΄
* Hebrew numerals: ח
* Old Persian numerals: 𐏒𐏒𐏒𐏒
* Roman numerals: VIII, viii
* Sinhalese numerals: 𑇨
* Tally marks: 𝍸𝍷𝍷𝍷

#### See also

* (Arabic digits): 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Other representations of 8:
| Morse code: –––·· Braille: ⠓ | Signal flag (ICS and NATO): | Semaphore: After showing "numeric" |

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eɪt/
** Audio (US):(file)
** Rhymes: -eɪt

### Verb

8
* (text messaging, Internet slang) Abbreviation of ate.
    i 8 it — I ate it.

#### Usage notes

* Used in the formation of several text messaging slang forms of words with IPA: /eɪt/ in them, due to it being the pronunciation of eight in English. See also h8, m8, gr8.

### See also

* 2
* 4
* 8-cell
* V8