Superscript Generator: Copy ˣ², ¹ and ᵀᴹ Anywhere

The grid shows every capital, lowercase letter and digit next to what the generator turns it into. Where the output is the same plain character, the generator has left it alone. You will see that only q and Q stay unchanged: their raised forms exist in Unicode, but no Apple or Android system font we checked draws them, so pasting them would show a box.

Digits are the most dependable part of the set. ⁰ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ are all in Unicode, along with ⁺ ⁻ ⁼ ⁽ ⁾, which is enough for most exponents and simple formulas.

What the set does not include matters just as much. There is no superscript period, comma or slash, so those characters stay on the baseline, and q stays there too for the reason above. A decimal exponent such as 2.5 comes out as ².⁵, with the point sitting low between two raised digits, and a fraction such as 1/2 comes out as ¹/², with a full-height slash.

To use the grid, click into the tool above and type only the characters you need raised. Copying a single character from the grid works too: ⁿ for "to the nth power", ⁻¹ for an inverse, or ᵗʰ for an ordinal. Each output is one character per input character, so the length of your text does not change, which matters for fields with a character limit.

Unicode has raised capital letters (named MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL A, B and so on) for 22 of the 26 capitals. Nineteen are the established ones in Phonetic Extensions and Latin Extended-C, and both platforms we measured draw them. The other three, raised C, F and Q (U+A7F2–A7F4), sit in Latin Extended-D, and on 2026-10-27 neither macOS 26.5.1 nor Android system fonts drew any of them. S, X, Y and Z have no raised capital at all. For those seven letters the generator uses the lowercase superscript where a drawn one exists, so a word in capitals stays readable, just with a few smaller letters in it.

So "TM" comes out as ᵀᴹ with true capitals, but "CSS" comes out as ᶜˢˢ and "FAQ" as ᶠᴬQ. If your word uses one of the seven, consider typing it in lowercase so every letter matches.

For math in plain text, convert only the part that should be raised. The generator converts everything you type, so type the exponent alone, copy it, and paste it after the base. Typing "x2" gives ˣ² with a raised x too, which is rarely what you want; x followed by a pasted ² gives x².

These were all produced by the generator on this page. Copy from the right-hand column.

Charges on ions and scientific notation follow the same rule. For a charge, raise the digit and the sign together: type 2+ and paste ²⁺ after Ca to get Ca²⁺, or type - for Cl⁻. For a power of ten, type 23 and paste ²³ after 10 to get 6.02×10²³. Formulas that need both a lowered and a raised part, such as sulfate SO₄²⁻, take one character from the subscript generator and two from this one.

Keep the result short. Two or three raised characters next to normal text read clearly; a whole phrase in superscript, like ˢᵉᵉ ⁿᵒᵗᵉ ᵇᵉˡᵒʷ, is hard to read at normal sizes and is better written plainly.

Unicode superscript is a workaround for places with no formatting. Where formatting exists, use it: the text stays ordinary letters, every letter including q is available, and search, spell check and screen readers treat it as the word it is.

There is also a trap in the other direction. Superscript made with formatting exists only inside the document. If you copy x² from a Word file into a plain-text field such as a profile bio or a game chat, the formatting is dropped and the reader sees x2. That is the moment to switch to Unicode: copy ² from the generator, not from your document.

Formatting also scales with the text. If you make a heading larger, real superscript grows with it and stays in proportion, while Unicode characters depend on how each font happens to draw them.

Several popular converters say Unicode has no superscript i. It does: ⁱ is U+2071, SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER I, in the Superscripts and Subscripts block, next to ⁿ (U+207F). Those tools substitute a different character, such as a small capital I, which is why their "i" looks dotless.

The real reason superscript text can look uneven is that it is assembled from three blocks. Digits and ⁱ ⁿ come from Superscripts and Subscripts; ʰ ʲ ʳ ˡ ˢ ʷ ˣ ʸ come from Spacing Modifier Letters; most of the rest, including the capitals, come from Phonetic Extensions. Fonts often draw each block at a slightly different size and height.

For q, the real characters do exist: U+107A5 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Q in Latin Extended-F, and U+A7F4 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL Q in Latin Extended-D. The problem is drawing, not encoding: in our measurement no macOS 26.5.1 or Android system font has either, so most readers would see a box. Some tools paste ᵠ instead, which is MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GREEK PHI, a different letter, without telling you the real q exists. We leave q plain until fonts catch up.

On 2026-10-27 we looked up all 54 distinct characters this superscript style can output in the character maps of the fonts that ship with macOS 26.5.1 and of Android's system fonts as listed in AOSP's fonts.xml. All 54 were present on both, so readers on those systems should see raised letters rather than empty boxes.

We did not measure Windows, and a font being present does not mean every app shows it: an app can strip or block characters in names or fields. If someone tells you they see boxes, their device is missing a font, and plain text is the fallback.

Size is the other thing to check. Raised characters are drawn small by design, and on a phone a two-letter tag such as ᵀᴹ can be hard to make out. In a username or display name, where it may be shown at a small size, a raised character is easiest to read next to plain text rather than in a run.

Paste a test into the exact field you plan to use before committing to it, especially for a username where you may not be able to change it back quickly. The superscript generator output is safest in short bursts, a single exponent, a marker or a two-letter tag, rather than whole sentences.