How to type Superscript Six
To type Superscript Six (⁶), press Alt + 8310 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+2076 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2076 on Linux, or 2076 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Superscript Six
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2076
- Windows
- Alt + 8310 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 8310 | 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+2076 | SUPERSCRIPT 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 superscript 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 Superscript Six behaves in software
⁶ takes one column in a terminal.
Every way to write Superscript Six
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2076 |
| Decimal | 8310 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 81 B6 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 20 76 |
| HTML entity | ⁶ |
| HTML numeric | ⁶ or ⁶ |
| CSS | \2076 |
| JavaScript | \u2076 |
| Python | \u2076 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%81%B6 |
| SVG | 2076.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ⁶ arrives as â�¶
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 81 B6 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.