How to type Subscript Six
To type Subscript Six (₆), press Alt + 8326 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ₆ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+2086 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2086 on Linux, or 2086 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Subscript Six
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2086
- Windows
- Alt + 8326 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8326 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ₆ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+2086 | SUBSCRIPT SIX |
Other math symbols
₆ 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 ₆ in a search box
₆ is a subscript form: Unicode says it can be rewritten as 6, one character. Anything that normalises text to NFKC before comparing it does exactly that, which is why ₆ pasted into a search field, a URL slug or a username can come back as 6 and match text that never contained ₆ at all. NFC, the form this site uses, leaves it alone. Unicode also records its numeric value as 6, so software that asks a character what number it is gets 6 rather than an error.
How Subscript Six behaves in software
₆ takes one column in a terminal.
Every way to write Subscript Six
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2086 |
| Decimal | 8326 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 82 86 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 20 86 |
| HTML entity | ₆ |
| HTML numeric | ₆ or ₆ |
| CSS | \2086 |
| JavaScript | \u2086 |
| Python | \u2086 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%82%86 |
| SVG | 2086.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ₆ arrives as ₆
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 82 86 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.