Subscripts · Technical · NumbersU+2081 · Superscripts and Subscripts
₁
Subscript One
U+2081 · decimal 8321 · Superscripts and Subscripts
Every way to write it
6 formsHTML entity
₁
This character has no named entity, so the numeric form is the one to use.
CSS content
\2081
For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.
JavaScript
\u2081
Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.
Python
\u2081
The escape for a Python string literal.
URL
%E2%82%81
Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.
UTF-8 bytes
E2 82 81
3 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.
Typing it without copying
system pickermacOS
Control + Command + Space, then search subscript one
Windows
Character Map or Alt + 8321
Groups it belongs to
Characters near it
8Code pointU+2081
EntityNumeric
UTF-83 bytes
ASCIINo