U+2088 SUBSCRIPT EIGHT

The Unicode character U+2088, officially named SUBSCRIPT EIGHT, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Super And Sub block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as SUBSCRIPT DIGIT EIGHT.

Categorized technically as a Other Number, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is Unknown and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an European Number character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.