Unicode Character "八" (U+516B)

The character 八 (CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-516B) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+516B. It is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as 八.

Main Unicode Properties

Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-516B
Unicode Codepoint U+516B
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block CJK Unified Ideographs
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Letter
Script Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja)
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+516B Conversion

HTML (decimal) 八
HTML (hex) 八
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E5%85%AB
CSS \516B
JavaScript \u{516B}
JSON \u516B
C, C++ \U0000516B
Java \u516B
Python \U0000516B
Rust \u{516B}
Ruby \u{516B}

How to type "八"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 5 1 6 B. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 5 1 6 B. Release Alt.

Preview

  • 八
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • 八
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • 八
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE5 0x85 0xAB
UTF-16 (hex) 0x516B
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000516B

Characters based on "八" (U+516B)

References