Superscripts and Subscripts
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Superscripts and Subscripts | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+2070..U+209F (48 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Latin (15 char.) Common (27 char.) |
| Assigned | 42 code points |
| Unused | 6 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 | 28 (+28) |
| 3.2 | 29 (+1) |
| 4.1 | 34 (+5) |
| 6.0 | 42 (+8) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Superscripts and Subscripts is a Unicode block containing superscript and subscript numerals, mathematical operators, and letters used in mathematics and phonetics. Other superscript letters can be found in the Spacing Modifier Letters, Phonetic Extensions and Phonetic Extensions Supplement blocks, while the superscript 1, 2, and 3, inherited from ISO 8859-1, were included in the Latin-1 Supplement block.
Block
| Superscripts and Subscripts[1][2][3] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+207x | ⁰ | ⁱ | ⁴ | ⁵ | ⁶ | ⁷ | ⁸ | ⁹ | ⁺ | ⁻ | ⁼ | ⁽ | ⁾ | ⁿ | ||
| U+208x | ₀ | ₁ | ₂ | ₃ | ₄ | ₅ | ₆ | ₇ | ₈ | ₉ | ₊ | ₋ | ₌ | ₍ | ₎ | |
| U+209x | ₐ | ₑ | ₒ | ₓ | ₔ | ₕ | ₖ | ₗ | ₘ | ₙ | ₚ | ₛ | ₜ | |||
Notes
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History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Superscripts and Subscripts block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+2070, 2074..208E | 28 | (to be determined) | ||
| 3.2 | U+2071 | 1 | L2/00-159 | N2265 | Cruz, Frank da (2000-03-31), Supplemental Terminal Graphics for Unicode |
| L2/04-191 | N2788 | Anderson, Deborah; Everson, Michael (2004-06-07), Proposal to encode six Indo-Europeanist phonetic characters in the UCS | |||
| L2/04-156R2 | Moore, Lisa (2004-08-13), UTC #99 Minutes | ||||
| 6.0 | U+2095..209C | 8 | L2/09-028 | N3571 | Ruppel, Klaas; Aalto, Tero; Everson, Michael (2009-01-27), Proposal to encode additional characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet |
| L2/09-195 | Iancu, Laurențiu (2009-05-04), Proposal to reallocate eight phonetic subscripts | ||||
| L2/09-104 | Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes | ||||
| L2/09-304 | Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-15), US Position on PDAM 8 | ||||
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See also
- Unicode superscripts and subscripts
- Phonetic symbols in Unicode
- Latin script in Unicode
References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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