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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
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Lining digit 8.
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Oldstyle
8 in
Fraktur script.
The following are equivalent forms as digits:
The following are only equivalent as representations of the cardinal number:
See also
Other representations of 8:
English
Pronunciation
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(key): /eɪt/ in them, due to it being the pronunciation of eight in English. See also h8, m8, gr8.
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