Superscript Latin Small Letter N

Superscript Latin Small Letter N at U+207F is a raised lowercase n used where an n must appear in superscript form as a single character. It belongs to the Superscripts and Subscripts block, which contains compatibility characters for compact mathematical, phonetic, and textual notation. Its most familiar use is in mathematics and education, where n stands for an unspecified positive integer or index, as in xⁿ for “x to the nth power.” In printed algebra, it often appears in general formulas, sequences, and polynomial notation when the exponent is not a fixed number. It also occurs in phonetics, linguistics, and dictionary-style notation, especially in transcriptions where superscript letters mark secondary articulation, release, or nasal qualities. In informal text, it may be used to imitate proper superscript typography in plain Unicode, such as writing “nᵗʰ” or ordinal-style abbreviations when rich text formatting is unavailable. Because this is a compatibility superscript letter rather than ordinary formatted text, it is not always equivalent to applying superscript styling to a normal n. Searching, sorting, and mathematical processing may treat it differently from the regular Latin small letter n.