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¹

Superscript One symbol

Type :sup1: · Numbers

What ¹ is for

The footnote marker, and the reason most people go looking for superscripts at all. A citation numbered this way survives being pasted into a plain text field, an email subject line or a tweet, none of which keep a word processor’s formatting.

How to type ¹

The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With Emoji Anywhere installed you can skip all of them and type :sup1: in any text field instead, which is the same on every platform.

Windows

Alt + 0185

Hold Alt and type the digits on the keypad.

macOS

No direct shortcut. Use Edit → Emoji & Symbols, or switch to the Unicode Hex Input source and type 00B9 with Option held.

Shortcodes

:sup1: :superscript_one:

On the web

HTML ¹

Unicode U+00B9

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