How to type Subscript Seven
To type Subscript Seven (₇), press Alt + 8327 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ₇ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+2087 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2087 on Linux, or 2087 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Subscript Seven
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2087
- Windows
- Alt + 8327 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8327 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ₇ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+2087 | SUBSCRIPT SEVEN |
Other math symbols
₇ lives in the Superscripts and Subscripts block (U+2070-U+209F), raised and lowered digits and letters. Within Unicode it is classified as No, a number that is not a digit. Fractions and superscript digits sit here. Its bidirectional class makes it a European number.
What happens to ₇ in a search box
₇ is a subscript form: Unicode says it can be rewritten as 7, one character. Anything that normalises text to NFKC before comparing it does exactly that, which is why ₇ pasted into a search field, a URL slug or a username can come back as 7 and match text that never contained ₇ at all. NFC, the form this site uses, leaves it alone. Unicode also records its numeric value as 7, so software that asks a character what number it is gets 7 rather than an error.
How Subscript Seven behaves in software
₇ takes one column in a terminal.
Every way to write Subscript Seven
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2087 |
| Decimal | 8327 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 82 87 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 20 87 |
| HTML entity | ₇ |
| HTML numeric | ₇ or ₇ |
| CSS | \2087 |
| JavaScript | \u2087 |
| Python | \u2087 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%82%87 |
| SVG | 2087.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ₇ arrives as ₇
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 82 87 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.