How to type Registered Trademark
To type Registered Trademark (®), press Alt + 0174 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or press Option + R on Mac, or write ® in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+00AE directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 00ae on Linux, or 00ae then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Registered Sign
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+00AE
- Windows
- Alt + 0174
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 0174 | Hold Alt and type the number on the numeric keypad. |
| Mac | Option + R | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ® | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+00AE | REGISTERED SIGN |
Other legal symbols
® lives in the Latin-1 Supplement block (U+0080-U+00FF), the accented letters and common signs Western European languages needed. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.
How to type ® in Microsoft Word and in Google Docs
In Microsoft Word, type 00ae and press Alt + X. Word reads the four characters before the cursor as a hex codepoint and replaces them, and pressing Alt + X again turns ® back into 00ae, which is the quickest way to check what a character really is.
In Google Docs, Insert, then Special characters, then search for registered sign or paste 00ae into the codepoint box.
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0174 on the numeric keypad.
On a phone, neither iOS nor Android has a codepoint route. Copy ® from this page once, then add it as a text replacement (Settings, General, Keyboard on iOS) so a short abbreviation expands to it from then on.
What Registered Trademark is used for
® belongs in prose rather than in an equation. LaTeX writes it \textregistered, a text command, and there is no maths command for it at all: it is a sign that gets written down, not an operator that acts on anything. Putting it inside $...$ is how it comes out looking wrong.
What Unicode says about Registered Trademark
The standard recognises ® under another name as well: registered trade mark sign (1.0). That is a formal alias, not a nickname, which is why it turns up in other people's documentation for the same codepoint.
The code chart points from ® to Trademark, circled latin capital letter r (U+24C7), raised md sign (U+1F16B) and raised mr sign (U+1F16C). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Registered Trademark looks nearly right but not quite.
How Registered Trademark behaves in software
® is East Asian Ambiguous: one column in a Western locale and two in a CJK one. That is why a table that lines up on your machine can break on somebody else's, with no change to the text at all. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
What people ask about Registered Trademark
How to add the registered symbol?
You can press Alt + 0174 on Windows, with Num Lock on and the digits typed on the numeric keypad, or press Option + R on Mac. Either produces ®.
How to put the registered symbol in word?
In Word, type 00ae and press Alt+X, which converts the codepoint you just typed into ®. Insert › Symbol › More Symbols finds it by its Unicode name, REGISTERED SIGN. Google Docs has no Alt+X, so use Alt + 0174 there, or Insert › Special characters and search the same name.
Every way to write Registered Trademark
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+00AE |
| Decimal | 174 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 AE |
| UTF-16 bytes | 00 AE |
| HTML entity | ® |
| HTML numeric | ® or ® |
| CSS | \00AE |
| JavaScript | \u00AE |
| Python | \u00AE |
| URL-encoded | %C2%AE |
| LaTeX, in prose | \textregistered |
| SVG | 00AE.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ® arrives as ®
That is this exact character, undamaged: its two UTF-8 bytes C2 AE are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The Latin-1 range is where this happens most, because it is the range every legacy system thought it already handled. Nothing is lost, and retyping will not help: the fix is at the reading end, which has to be told the text is UTF-8. An empty rectangle is the opposite complaint, and means the encoding is right and the font has no glyph for U+00AE.