This character is a Decimal Number and is mainly used in the Saurashtra script. The codepoint has the decimal value 8.
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+A8D8 forms a number with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
43224
UTF-8
EA A3 98
UTF-16
A8 D8
UTF-32
00 00 A8 D8
URL-Quoted
%EA%A3%98
HTML hex reference
꣘
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
꣘
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
82 36 FC 37
RFC 5137
\u'A8D8'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\uA8D8
C and C++
\uA8D8
C#
\uA8D8
CSS
\00A8D8
Excel
=UNICHAR(43224)
Go
\uA8D8
JavaScript
\uA8D8
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{a8d8}
JSON
\uA8D8
Java
\uA8D8
Lua
\u{A8D8}
Matlab
char(43224)
Perl
"\x{A8D8}"
PHP
\u{a8d8}
PostgreSQL
U&'\A8D8'
PowerShell
`u{A8D8}
Python
\uA8D8
Ruby
\u{a8d8}
Rust
\u{a8d8}
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