How to type Superscript N
To type Superscript N (ⁿ), press Alt + 8319 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ⁿ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+207F directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 207f on Linux, or 207f then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Superscript Latin Small Letter N
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+207F
- Windows
- Alt + 8319 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8319 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ⁿ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+207F | SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER N |
Other math symbols
Superscript N is not the only name it goes by. People look for ⁿ as exponent and to the power of as well, and the search box on this site matches any of them, so you do not have to know which name Unicode chose.
ⁿ lives in the Superscripts and Subscripts block (U+2070-U+209F), raised and lowered digits and letters. Within Unicode it is classified as Lm, a modifier letter. It changes the sound or sense of the letter before it. Its bidirectional class makes it left-to-right.
What happens to ⁿ in a search box
ⁿ is a superscript form: Unicode says it can be rewritten as n, one character. Anything that normalises text to NFKC before comparing it does exactly that, which is why ⁿ pasted into a search field, a URL slug or a username can come back as n and match text that never contained ⁿ at all. NFC, the form this site uses, leaves it alone.
What Unicode says about Superscript N
Unicode annotates ⁿ directly. Against U+207F the code chart carries the note “Functions as a modifier letter”. That is the standard saying what the character is for, rather than an inference from its name.
How Superscript N behaves in software
ⁿ 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 is a left-to-right character, so it holds that direction even inside a right-to-left paragraph.
What people ask about Superscript N
What is the to the power of symbol?
ⁿ is SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER N, encoded at U+207F. The Unicode code chart annotates it “Functions as a modifier letter”, which is the standard's own statement of what it is for.
How to make to the power of symbol?
You can press Alt + 8319 on Windows, with Num Lock on and the digits typed on the numeric keypad. That produces ⁿ.
Every way to write Superscript N
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+207F |
| Decimal | 8319 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 81 BF |
| UTF-16 bytes | 20 7F |
| HTML entity | ⁿ |
| HTML numeric | ⁿ or ⁿ |
| CSS | \207F |
| JavaScript | \u207F |
| Python | \u207F |
| URL-encoded | %E2%81%BF |
| SVG | 207F.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ⁿ arrives as â�¿
One character has become three, which is what a three-byte UTF-8 sequence looks like when each byte is read separately: E2 81 BF read as Windows-1252 gives exactly �. The text is intact and the damage is in the reading, so setting the reader to UTF-8 restores it and retyping does not. A rectangle instead of the mojibake means the opposite: the encoding is right and the font has no glyph at U+207F, which for a character this far outside Latin-1 is common in older office fonts.