This character is a Decimal Number and is mainly used in the Tamil script. It is also used in the script Grantha. The codepoint has the decimal value 2.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. This number joins with other adjacent letters and numbers to form a word. U+0BE8 forms a number with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and the only even prime number.
Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultures.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
3048
UTF-8
E0 AF A8
UTF-16
0B E8
UTF-32
00 00 0B E8
URL-Quoted
%E0%AF%A8
HTML hex reference
௨
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
௨
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 32 99 32
RFC 5137
\u'0BE8'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u0BE8
C and C++
\u0BE8
C#
\u0BE8
CSS
\000BE8
Excel
=UNICHAR(3048)
Go
\u0BE8
JavaScript
\u0BE8
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{be8}
JSON
\u0BE8
Java
\u0BE8
Lua
\u{BE8}
Matlab
char(3048)
Perl
"\x{BE8}"
PHP
\u{be8}
PostgreSQL
U&'\0BE8'
PowerShell
`u{BE8}
Python
\u0BE8
Ruby
\u{be8}
Rust
\u{be8}
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