Superscript Generator

This superscript generator converts typed letters, digits and signs into tiny raised Unicode characters, such as x², 10⁻³ or ʲᵘˢᵗ ᵏⁱᵈᵈⁱⁿᵍ, that you copy and paste into a bio, chat, note or spreadsheet. It shows where Unicode has gaps and runs entirely in your browser.

How to use the superscript generator

1. Type only the part that should be raised, such as the exponent 2, in the box at the top.
2. Find the Superscript row and check the result; the digits row shows number-only superscripts.
3. Tap Copy and paste it straight after your normal text, as in x².

What this generator is for

Superscript is the raised, smaller text you see in x², footnote markers like the ¹ after a sentence, and ordinal endings. People search for a superscript generator when they are somewhere that cannot format text: an Instagram bio, a Discord message, a game name, a spreadsheet cell, a plain-text email. This page swaps ordinary characters for Unicode characters that are drawn small and high, so the raised look survives a copy and paste.

The generator converts every letter and digit it can. For maths, convert only the exponent. For a whisper-quiet aside, convert the whole phrase.

Common uses

Skip it for trademarks. The real ™ is a single character that every system understands, while superscript T and M are two letters that happen to look similar.

The letters and digits that exist, and the gaps

Unicode contains a superscript form for every lowercase letter and every digit, but the story is untidier than that sounds, because the characters were not made as a set.

• Lowercase. Twenty-five of the 26 letters have long-standing characters, most of them modifier letters from phonetics (ʰ, ʲ, ʳ, ˢ, ʷ, ʸ, ˣ, ˡ) and from the Phonetic Extensions block (ᵃ ᵇ ᵈ ᵉ ᵍ ᵏ ᵐ ᵒ ᵖ ᵗ ᵘ ᵛ ᶜ ᶠ ᶻ). Two sit in the Superscripts block itself: ⁱ (U+2071) and ⁿ (U+207F).
• q. The odd one out. Unicode 14 added 𐞥 (U+107A5, MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Q) in 2021, which is recent enough that many fonts have no glyph for it. The generator uses ᑫ (U+146B, CANADIAN SYLLABICS KE), which looks like a raised q on most devices. If your reader’s font is older, ᑫ is far safer than 𐞥.
• Capitals. Only 19 capitals have a superscript: ᴬ ᴮ ᴰ ᴱ ᴳ ᴴ ᴵ ᴶ ᴷ ᴸ ᴹ ᴺ ᴼ ᴾ ᴿ ᵀ ᵁ ⱽ ᵂ. There is none for C, F, S, X, Y or Z, and a capital Q (ꟴ, U+A7F4) arrived with Unicode 14 along with the small one. Where a capital is missing the generator uses the lowercase form, so ᴬᴮᶜᴰ mixes capital and lowercase shapes. For a consistent look, type in lowercase.
• Digits and signs. ⁰ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ and ⁺ ⁻ ⁼ ⁽ ⁾ are all present.

Punctuation, spaces and emoji pass through unchanged, so a sentence stays readable as a sentence.

Why ¹ ² ³ do not match ⁴ to ⁹

Look at 1²³⁴⁵ on your screen and you may notice that the first three digits are a little different in height or weight. That is a real feature of Unicode history, not a bug in the tool.

The first three were inherited from legacy 8-bit character sets, so they sit in the Latin-1 block, and a font may take them from its basic Latin design. The others came with the dedicated Superscripts block. Good fonts match them; many system fonts do not. If a number such as 2⁴ or 10²³ looks uneven, switch the font in the app (many apps let you do that for documents and notes) or accept the unevenness in a casual bio.

Under NFKC normalization these all fold back to plain digits, which is how the fancy text to normal converter can undo them.

When to use real formatting instead

Pasted superscript is a workaround for places that cannot format. If you are writing a document, use the app’s own superscript, which keeps the actual letters and just raises them:

• Microsoft Word (Windows): Ctrl+Shift+= (Plus) toggles superscript, per Microsoft’s Word shortcut list. Ctrl+= is the long-standing subscript shortcut, though Microsoft’s current list names Ctrl+Shift+Minus. On Mac, Microsoft lists Cmd+Shift+Plus for superscript.
• Google Docs: Ctrl+. for superscript, Ctrl+, for subscript (Cmd on Mac).
• Web pages: the HTML element <sup>, or CSS vertical-align: super.

Real formatting is searchable, copies to other apps as the right characters and is read correctly by screen readers. Unicode superscripts are separate symbols: search for “10th” and a document containing “10ᵗʰ” will not match. Screen readers may announce each character by name, such as “modifier letter small h”.

Typing the common ones without a generator

If you only need ¹ ² ³, there are quicker routes than opening a web page. On Windows, hold Alt and type 0185 (¹), 0178 (²) or 0179 (³) on the numeric keypad. On a Mac, the Character Viewer (Control+Command+Space) lists Superscripts and Subscripts under Math Symbols. Phone keyboards generally have no key for them, which is where a generator, or a saved text replacement such as “m2” turning into m², earns its keep. Only ¹ ² ³ have these quick codes; ⁴ to ⁹, the raised letters and the signs need the generator or a character picker.

For serious maths, a proper equation editor is better than any pasted characters. Word, Google Docs and LaTeX all lay out exponents, fractions and nested powers correctly, which a string of Unicode superscripts cannot do: there is no superscript for a superscript, and no way to raise a long expression neatly.

Make it readable

• Keep runs short. Superscript letters are small. A word or two is fine in a bio; a paragraph is hard on a phone.
• Avoid it for essentials. Prices, dates, links and contact details belong in plain text.
• Check the digits. If an exponent matters (a maths post, a recipe temperature), look at the rendered result on a second device before posting.
• Mix with bigger styles. A name from cute fonts or cursive text followed by a superscript tagline reads as a deliberate two-level layout.

Where it fits among the small styles

Superscript is one of three small-text families. Subscript sits low but has only 17 letters, so it is mainly for digits and formulas. Small caps keep capital shapes at lowercase height on the baseline and cover almost the whole alphabet. The general-purpose small text generator shows all three together. If you want superscript digits in other number styles, such as circled or double-struck, the number font generator lists them side by side.

For exponents, ordinals and footnote marks in places with no toolbar, the superscript generator does the job; for real documents, use the raised formatting your app already has.