Superscript generator, raised and lowered text.

A superscript generator swaps ordinary letters, digits and signs for their raised Unicode forms, and a subscript generator does the same for the lowered forms. Because they are characters and not formatting, you can paste them into places that have no superscript button: a social media bio, a chat, a spreadsheet cell, a file name, a plain text note. This page shows the superscript and the subscript result at the same time, and it tells you which characters Unicode has no form for.

How to use the superscript generator

1. Type or paste text into Your text. Both results update as you type.
2. Read Superscript and Subscript. A highlighted character was left as you typed it, because Unicode has no raised or lowered form of it. The line under each result counts them and lists them.
3. Choose what to change under Convert. Digits and signs only is for exponents and formulas: x2 becomes x² and the letters stay plain. Letters only leaves digits alone.
4. For maths and chemistry, switch on Use ^ and _ as markers and write x^2 or H_2O. Only the part after the marker changes.
5. Press Copy on the result you want. To use one character, click it in the chart at the bottom. Press Back to plain text to turn raised or lowered characters in the box back into plain ones.

Worked examples

Hello in superscript is ᴴᵉˡˡᵒ: H, e, l, l and o all have a raised form, so 5 of 5 characters change. In subscript it is Hₑₗₗₒ, because Unicode has no subscript capital H. 4 characters change and the H stays, so the result line reads 1 left as it was.

E = mc^2 with markers on gives E = mc² in the superscript box. 10^-6 gives 10⁻⁶: the hyphen after ^ becomes the superscript minus ⁻. x^(n+1) gives x⁽ⁿ⁺¹⁾, because a group in brackets is raised with its brackets. H_2O gives H₂O, and 1^st 2^nd 3^rd 4^th gives 1ˢᵗ 2ⁿᵈ 3ʳᵈ 4ᵗʰ.

Which letters have no form

These come from Unicode's own data files, UnicodeData.txt for the superscript and subscript forms and DerivedAge.txt for the version each was added in. Both are Unicode 18.0.0, checked 19 Oct 2026.

Punctuation such as a comma, a full stop or a slash has no raised or lowered form either. This page counts those as left as they were too, since they are in your text and did not change.

Footnotes, exponents, chemistry and trademarks

• Footnotes: a raised digit after a word, such as Source¹. The digits ¹ ² ³ and ⁴ to ⁹ all exist.
• Exponents: m² for square metres, cm³ for cubic centimetres, 10⁻⁶ for a millionth. Use the digit-only setting so the unit letters stay plain.
• Chemical formulas: H₂O, CO₂ and Ca(OH)₂ use subscript digits and brackets. An ion such as SO₄²⁻ mixes both: subscript 4, then superscript 2 and a superscript minus.
• Trademarks: ™ is its own character, one click in the marks row. Typing TM in superscript gives ᵀᴹ, which looks different and is not the same character. Use ™ when you mean the sign. ℠ is the service mark and ® the registered sign.
• Ordinals: 1ˢᵗ, 2ⁿᵈ, 3ʳᵈ and 4ᵗʰ use superscript letters. The characters ª and º are the Spanish ordinal marks and are kept apart from the letters here.

When boxes appear

Every device needs a font that contains the character. The older raised digits and the Latin letters have been in fonts for years. The newest ones, such as superscript q and capital C, F, Q and S, are not in most fonts yet, so they can show as boxes. That is why the very new characters are off until you switch them on. If a recipient sees a box, it is their font, and the text is still there.

Accessibility and search

Raised and lowered characters are not plain letters. Search usually does not match them with the plain word, and screen readers may read them oddly or skip them. Keep names, key words and anything people must find in plain text, and use raised characters for a small mark. In a web page, the HTML sup and sub tags are the better choice, because they keep the plain text.

To change the case of text, use the case converter. For whole alphabets in bold, script and other styles, see the fancy text generator. To spell something out letter by letter, try the phonetic alphabet translator.